Incoming Nevada Speaker is a real piece of work

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Easy dump, 2016. Democrats take over the State House, Hillary Clinton wins Nevada by a landslide, Harry Reid or his chosen successor successor gets elected to the Senate.

[pbrower2a]

I have no problem with people defending the military heritage of the Confederacy. The Confederate armed forces were on the whole the most gentlemanly enemies that the US ever faced in wartime. There were some blatant exceptions, and they paid for their crimes.

If someone wants to honor Confederate war dead as ancestors or near-ancestors, then so be it.

The political heritage of the Confederacy is a different matter. The Confederacy may have dressed its defense of slavery in noble-sounding words, but noble-sounding words cannot hide that after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Confederacy was fighting only for slavery. It was not fighting for ownership of land.

In view of the way in which the Union dealt with slavery in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri -- buying the freedom of slaves -- I am increasingly convinced that Abraham Lincoln was intent on imitating the British way of emancipating slaves, a way that proved much more practical than the Civil War.