Gettysburg, JFK, the sexes, the military, WWII, and Pope Francis again

• From RR:
  • Is the US Postal Service ready to be sold off? A government service that’s in the Constitution and I understand takes no tax money but is a dinosaur like newspapers and magazines.
  • US Census “faked” 2012 election jobs report.
  • Seven score and 10 years ago yesterday: The Gettysburg Address: still balderdash after 150 years. The more vehemently a president equates democracy with freedom, the greater the danger he likely poses to Americans’ rights. On that note, from Joshua: Gettysburg gospel, or a false, civil religion using Christianity’s style (the rhetoric of the King James Bible) but not its content. (Lincoln was an unbeliever but smart and of course steeped in the country’s Protestant culture.) As Joshua and Modestinus would agree, the Americanist heresy.
• President Kennedy: again, who/what killed him? Lone Commie nut, Society™ (the left’s narrative: evil right-wing, racist, anti-DC Dallas in ’63) or something else?
  • Was Oswald a CIA operative? I don’t like the left’s spin, that somehow it was conservative Dallas’s fault or the establishment’s, but there are so many loose ends.
  • From Mark in Spokane: A man who wouldn’t be at home in the left or mainstream now. I wouldn’t try to go as far as appropriating him for conservatism but that sounds about right. He was the handsome hood ornament of a better era. Also: JFK and Nixon.
  • From Ex-Army: It's too bad that Dallas wasn't more of a city of hate. If it had been, one of the right-wing haters might have squished the dorky little communist Lee Harvey Oswald before he had to chance to shoot Kennedy. Ever think of it that way, pundits? "Hate," of course, was defined then and now as opposition to liberalism in any way, shape, or form. This included running against liberals even if you were a slightly more moderate liberal yourself, as was the case with poor old wannabe liberal Nixon.
• From Takimag: TV in ’63.
• From Roissy: A modern corporate harem.
• From Bob Wallace: Feminism has exposed some pretty bad things about women.
• More from Ex-Army: Jack Donovan on Veterans’ Day and the military. Perfect. Neither excusing the government that misuses the troops nor attacking the military.
• From LRC:
  • Pat Buchanan on Pope Francis. Typical conservative no-thanks and he’s right.
  • Again the truth about WWII: We didn’t win. We helped the USSR win. We were saps and Roosevelt was no good.
• From MCJ: The Obamacare flop is hilarious.