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Oratory died with Leftism, which hides, rather than reveals, truth; and with MTV, which brought America's attention span down to 15 seconds. This is the sad result. No wonder Newt is popular right now. Whether he's a snake oil salesman or the real deal, and regardless of staggering baggage, he might just go down as the last real public speaker, someone who can hit core truths and do so extemporaneously.
Newt: There's no zealot like a convert
One of the things my parents always told me was that there is no one more fired with zealotry than a convert. Paul of Tarsus is, of course, the perfect example of the truth behind that statement.
One doesn't have to look so far field, though, in time at space. Just consider the fact that so many of the most prominent conservative bloggers today are former liberals. Thomas Lifson, of American Thinker; the whole Power Line crew; David Horowitz; Roger L. Simon; Andrew Breitbart; and so many more, once having seen the light, fell compelled to share it with others. To them, conservativism isn't a background noise, it's an epiphany. In addition to their zealotry, these neocons have another significant advantage: having once been liberals themselves, they understand the liberal mindset and they can challenge it more effectively than someone who has never seen Leftism from the inside.
Newt Gingrich is currently under attack for being the ultimate government insider. He was an elected representative and then, no matter how he dances around it, he was a lobbyist. Talk about being in the belly of the beast.
In this election cycle, though, Newt speaks with the zealotry of the convert. Unlike Romney, who has the rich, earthy charm of a poorly designed android, and Santorum, who is the really nice guy no one notices, Gingrich is the one on the street corner hollering to the crowds about being saved. Either it's a fantastic performance, or he has genuinely bought into core conservative notions about the economy, about race in America, about welfare dependency, etc. He is articulating core conservative principles with verve and wit. The added fillip, of course, is that, although Newt has arguably turned his back on the political establishment, he knows better than anyone how it operates and, therefore, is better situated than anyone to bring it under control.
Newt's joie de vivre makes his presentation so natural that I am currently inclined to see him as a newly converted true believer, rather than a snake oil salesman. Of course, the problem with converts is that, sometimes, they backslide. If Newt has indeed seen the light, it remains to be seen whether this is a permanent change to his core principles or a merely superficial fad.
Apropos Newt's wit, stick with this short speech excerpt to the end:
If the press ignores an event, does it exist?
We all know the philosophical question that asks, "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
The media is trying a variation on this question by asking, "If we completely ignore a fact, so that no one hears about it, does the fact exist?" The media's latest experiment with this grand philosophical question is to pretend that the audience in South Carolina wasn't completely thrilled by Newt's response to opening questions regarding his ex-wife's accusations about his behavior during their marriage.
I honestly don't know whether Newt's direct challenges to the media mean that he has the "right stuff" to be president. I just know that his willingness to stand up and fight the Pravda that the American media has become is a very important and necessary step in the new media age. More Republicans should stop pandering and start speaking truth to media power. It's time to break this monopoly by showing it the disrespect it deserves.
Newt reminds me why I like him
When Newt does things like this, I like him so very much:
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger;" or, there's a virtue to Newt's mania
Yes, Nietzsche ended up insane, but that doesn't mean he didn't occasionally hit the nail on the head. Although it isn't true in all cases that "what does not destroy me makes me stronger," it is true in many cases.
In the case of Newt Gingrich's most recent attack against Romney, James Taranto says that Newt may be doing everyone a favor. (BTW, I agree with Danny in saying that Newt has out-Newted himself with his vile attack on capitalism, and rolled himself right off my list of viable presidential candidates.) Here's Taranto's take on Newt's unhinged anti-capitalist attack:
Yet all that said, assuming that Romney is the eventual nominee, Gingrich is doing him a huge favor. To see why, think about what happened to John Kerry, the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat who by the way served in Vietnam.
At a time of national-security crisis, Kerry planned to coast into the White House on his autobiography as a war hero. Against weak opposition, he quickly wrapped up the Democratic nomination, and no one–either opponents or the press–bothered to question the story he told about himself.
Then, once the general-election campaign was under way, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth came along to dispute his accounts of his own heroism and to remind Americans that Kerry's first foray into political life consisted of Senate testimony in which he viciously slandered fellow veterans. Kerry had no good response–in part because the Swift Boat Vets had him dead to rights, at least on the latter point, and in part because he was unprepared.
Romney is in a troublingly analogous position. At a time of economic crisis, he too is running on his biography, as a businessman who knows how to create jobs. Like Kerry, Romney faced weak opposition, at least until Gingrich's rise a couple of months ago. Timid Pawlenty and Tongue-Tied Perry tried to land a few blows, but they were barely up for a pillow fight. Gingrich, by contrast, is causing Romney some pain–and Romney is making things worse by saying things like "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."
In other words, this primary is Romney's trial run. If he can't handle this issue with his own party, he certainly won't be able to handle it with the nation at large. After all, this isn't secret dirt and mud that sleazy political operatives are digging up. Instead, this is what Romney is.
Now, I have to admit that, in all the years I've thought about Romney as a candidate, one of the things I've liked best about him is his willingness to make the hard decisions and revitalize moribund institutions. This country needs that willingness.
A friend of mine who lives in a poverty-stricken region, with most of the poverty-stricken current or former drug and alcohol abusers thinks that, if we don't keep up Obama-esque unlimited welfare payments, there'll be blood on the streets. My feeling is that, right now, the country as a whole can absorb the outrage of the current number of disaffected citizens.* The real problems start if Obamanomics provides perverse incentives that expand the number of the very people whom my friend fears.
*I'm not unaware of the fact that many of these disaffected people, including those in my friend's community, made their bad choices because they were raised by people who made equally bad choices. They emulated the people around them. The fact, though, that circumstances cause people to harm themselves does not, I think, obligate us as a society to perpetuate that harm by funding dysfunctional communities indefinitely.
The FDR myth
We all grew up being taught that FDR was the nation's savior. He wasn't. He was a Progressive who prolonged the depression by an extra seven or eight years, inflicting tremendous damage on the nation. The fact that Newt finds FDR an effective leader is somewhat worrying.
Newt: a Hollywood anti-hero *UPDATED*
Why, oh why, oh why can't I get more excited about Mitt? On paper, he's a very good candidate. Yes, there have been flips and flops, but it's naive to expect perfect political purity from any candidate. Aside from that, he's straight out of Hollywood's central casting, circa 1944: well-educated, handsome, wholesome, loyal, intelligent, efficient, effective, reliable, fiscally savvy, and, apparently, quite nice to have around the office. (Either that, or he's a German Shepherd, a breed that shares many of those traits.) He should be a dream candidate, but for so many he isn't.
It's the Hollywood reference that got me thinking. Pardon me for sounding like Maureen Dowd here, but isn't Newt the quintessential bad boy from the Hollywood movie? You know, the one who runs around in the leather jacket, with his hair slicked back, but who is actually the hero of the movie, while the clean-cut good guy turns out to have feet of clay?
Yes, I know that it's hard to see this man
in the role of this man
but I am here to assure you that Mitt's problem, and Newt's saving grace (so far) is that, poor Mitt, creature of the 1950s that he is, has wandered into the wrong 1950s movie, the one in which the anti-hero, not the hero, saves the day.
UPDATED: I feel a little embarrassed looking at the above post, a very fluffy post, as Keith Koffler makes plain that the upcoming election is a pivotal one, when that will definitely determine the direction the United States takes in the foreseeable future.
I'll say here what I've said before and that's that I will vote for whichever candidate is not Obama. That's the bottom line for all of us. We have to support ferociously whomever gets the Republican nomination. (And that will be a bitter pill for me if Ron Paul does.)
Newt and Obama Care (and one other Newt thing)
Newt made a very good point about his earlier support for an individual mandate when it came to health care: The Heritage Foundation, as reputable a conservative think tank as one can find, actually thought the idea was a good one. Then, as Newt did, it backed off when it realized the ramifications:
Scott Pruitt, attorney general of Oklahoma: "Mr. Speaker, you speak passionately about first principles and small government — smaller government, yet you supported individual mandates for health insurance….Why should limited government conservatives like me trust that a President Gingrich will not advance these sorts of big government approaches when you are president?"
Newt Gingrich: "Well…the original individual mandate originally was developed by [the] Heritage Foundation and others as a method to block Hillarycare in 1993, and virtually all of us who were conservatives came to the conclusion that, in fact, it was more dangerous and more difficult to implement, and guaranteed that politics and politicians would define health care. And that's why virtually every conservative has, in fact, left that kind of a model."
Speaking of Newt, was I the only one who was delighted with his response when Nancy Pelosi threatened to reveal secrets? Rather than cowering, he said (a) bring it on and (b) I'm going to ream you for violating ethics rules. And then she backed down. This is why conservatives like Newt. He's not afraid of the establishment. He may be a fruitcake, but he's our warrior fruitcake!
Newt's not as smart as all that — say liberals
Since at least Reagan, the standard liberal trope is that Republicans, both voters and politicians, are stupid. That trope has, of course, emerged again this year. The joker in the deck is Newt Gingrich, a PhD and author who spokes with incredible fluency and has a masterful grasp of facts.
With Newt as the frontrunner, the Left is rallying with a line of attack I'll call "Newt's not as smart as all that." Exhibit One is a Frank Bruni NYT's Op-Ed sarcastically entitled "Professor Gingrich." To set up his premise that Newt's not as smart as all that, Bruni carefully insults the other Republican candidates:
The candidates who surged before him are to varying degrees yahoos. They proved it anew last week. Michele Bachmann [a successful lawyer] seemed to be under the impression that we had an embassy in Iran, and Rick Perry [Air Force pilot and successful long-time Texas politician] was definitely under the delusion that the voting age in this country is 21 instead of 18.
Herman Cain [multiple degrees, Navy background, hugely successful businessman), on his Web site, unveiled the foreign-policy analogue to his 9-9-9 tax jingle, a world map that merely labeled countries "ally," "adversary" and the like. Had it instead presented little thumbs-up and thumbs-down symbols, along with palm trees for hot countries and snowflakes for cold ones, it wouldn't have been any more simplistic.
Funnily enough, Bruni's paragraph didn't include a rant about a politician who's spoken about America's 57 states, appeared impressed with the Austrian language, bemoaned attacks on English embassies, applauded the military's "corpsemen," waffled on about mysterious "price versus earnings ratios," held only one non-academic, non-political job (the Annenberg Foundation) that was a major disaster, and kept all of his grades carefully under wraps. I guess Bruni just forgot about him. But I digress…
Having established that Republicans are "yahoos," Bruni goes in for the kill against the one Republican who doesn't have "yahoo" written on his resume. Newt's problem isn't that he's smart, it's that he's proud of being smart, damn him!
But then there's Gingrich, the former college professor, who regularly brandishes his Ph.D. in history from Tulane. He does it directly, as in a 1995 interview when he bragged, "I am the most seriously professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson."
He does it obliquely, by constantly invoking centuries past. Ask him about the price of milk, and he'll likely work in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Couple that showy scholarship with his grandiose streak and you get pomposity on a scale that would make a French monarch blanch. Last week, in an electronic book published by Politico and Random House, it was revealed that he had compared the attempts to retool his initially beleaguered campaign with the founding of Wal-Mart by Sam Walton and of McDonald's by Ray Kroc.
In a Fox News interview he one-upped any of Al Gore's long-ago claims about "Love Story," Love Canal or the invention of the Internet.
"I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics," he boasted.
"I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress," he added. Put aside the tortured locution — were there reds among the House's Blue Dogs, along with Bolshevik backbenchers? — and you're left with an audacious credit grab.
And in Bluffton, S.C., he told voters that he didn't need to lobby because after he left Congress, "I was charging $60,000 a speech, and the number of speeches was going up, not down. Normally, celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches every year. We were selling more."
Faced with the reality of Newt's intellectual and knowledge, Bruni reluctantly concludes that the Republicans feel that they need someone who can speak at Obama's rarefied level:
If you consider how ardently Republicans courted Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie, you're forced to conclude that they do value, and crave, an intellectually muscular candidate who can square off against President Obama. The 2012 election has a fundamentally different temperature from the 2010 one. There's arguably worse economic uncertainty this time around, greater stakes and a seemingly waning thirst for Tea.
And Republicans appreciate that a presidential race, and the presidency itself, have a higher altitude than a Congressional showdown. Some palpable gray matter really does come in handy.
Isn't that a nice phrase? "Palpable grey matter."
Yes, it is true that Republicans have normally favored do-ers over talkers. This year, they recognize, though, that Obama has so decimated the country's psyche that they need someone who can talk us out of the hole Obama dug (or do I mean off the ledge Obama has yakked us onto). And Republicans, being smart, are looking carefully at the one candidate who can blow to Hell and back any pretense that Obama is as smart as he thinks he is.
After all, as Bruni's column perfectly shows, liberals tend to reduce "intellectualism" to who's faster with the personal attack. (Think "palpable grey matter." ) During an argument with a liberal yesterday, an argument that wasn't originally focused just on me, my opposing party managed to reduce the argument down to three statements: "You're an idiot. You're an effing moron. You're a jackass." I was not impressed either by the liberal's grasp of facts or advocacy tactics. What really depressed me, though, wasn't the string of meaningless insults. It was that this is what passes for reasoned debate on the liberal side of the political spectrum.
On the subject of insults I'll say one more thing: given the virulence with which the MSM attacks conservatives — not their ideas, but their person — perhaps it's not surprising that so few are willing to stand up to be beaten down.
Newt Gingrich, poor children, and work habits
One of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think. In other words, his politically correct utterances aren't out of the KKK playbook, they're out of "the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over" playbook.
A week ago, he said that child labor laws are stupid insofar as they prevent children from getting paying jobs (including janitorial jobs) that would help them to maintain their own schools — at less cost, incidentally, than using unionized janitors. His most recent utterance, expanding on this point, was that poor children have no work ethic:
"Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday," Gingrich claimed.
"They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal," he added.
All the usual suspects are up in arms. I haven't bothered to hunt down quotations from the unions that keep schools supplied with janitors, but I'm sure they're not happy. More than that, though, Newt's statements have been interpreted to mean that he advocates a return to 19th Century child labor, complete with seven-day work weeks, 12 of which are spent laboring in a coal mine. Take a gander, for example, at this screen shot from YouTube after I searched up "Newt Gingrich poor children":
Charles Blowhard, New York Times opinion columnist, is horrified that Newt might look at the way in which the poor behave and conclude that their learned behavior contributes to their poverty. He also comes back with reams of statistics about the fact that the poor do work:
This statement isn't only cruel and, broadly speaking, incorrect, it's mind-numbingly tone-deaf at a time when poverty is rising in this country. He comes across as a callous Dickensian character in his attitude toward America's most vulnerable — our poor children. This is the kind of statement that shines light on the soul of a man and shows how dark it is.
Gingrich wants to start with the facts? O.K.
First, as I've pointed out before, three out of four poor working-aged adults — ages 18 to 64 — work. Half of them have full-time jobs and a quarter work part time.
Furthermore, according to an analysis of census data by Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College, most poor children live in a household where at least one parent is employed. And even among children who live in extreme poverty — defined here as a household with income less than 50 percent of the poverty level — a third have at least one working parent. And even among extremely poor children who live in extremely poor areas — those in which 30 percent or more of the population is poor — nearly a third live with at least one working parent.
I'll accept as true the fact that the poor work, but that's too facile. We also need to look at their attitude towards work. As Shakespeare would say, there's the rub. Let me quote from a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, describing the way in which a white liberal tried desperately to explain away the fact that large corporations find it extremely difficult to keep minority employees:
Mr. Bookworm works for a very large corporation. While we were in the car with the kids, the conversation turned to the exquisite sensitivity the corporation has to show when it's faced with firing a minority employee. The process is arduous, requiring huge HR involvement, dozens of staff interviews and a lengthy paper trail.
The reason for this labor intensive firing is the unfortunate fact that minorities tend to be less satisfactory employees. As Mr. Bookworm was at great pains to point out to the children (and correctly so), this is a group trend and has nothing to do with the merits of any individual minority employee. It's just that, if you look at a bell curve of minority employees versus a bell curve of white employees, you'll find more white employees than minority employees in the segment denoting "good worker." No modern corporation, however, wants a reputation as a "firer of minorities."
The above are facts. What fascinated me was the different spin Mr. Bookworm and I put on those facts. Mr. Bookworm sent twenty minutes explaining to the children that, to the extent blacks were poorer employees, it was because their culture made them incapable of working. (This was not meant as an insult. He was talking, of course, about the culture of poverty.).
Mr. Bookworm painted a picture of a black child living in a ghetto, with a single mother who gave birth to him when she was 14, with several siblings from different fathers, with a terrible school, surrounded by illiterates, hungry all the time, etc. No wonder, he said, that this child doesn't bring to a corporation the same work ethic as a middle class white kid.
This creates big problems for corporations. A modern corporation truly wants to hire minorities. Once it's hired them, though, according to my liberal husband, it ends up with workers who are incapable of functioning in a white collar, corporate environment. The corporation therefore finds itself forced to fire it's minority hires more frequently than white or Asian employees, with the result that it's accused of racism. Its response to that accusation is to proceed with excessive caution and extreme due diligence whenever a black employee fails at the job.
My suggestion to the children was that minority employees, aware that it's almost impossible to fire them, might be disinclined to put out their best efforts on the job. Why should they? Logic and energy conservation both dictate that a smart person should do the bare minimum to get a job done. In this case, for the black employees, the job their doing isn't what's in the job description. Instead, their job is simply to keep their job.
Amusingly Newt thinks exactly the same as my liberal husband does. They both blame black culture for poor black employment habits. The difference is that, while Newt thinks it's a fixable situation, starting with the children and their attitude toward labor, my husband, like Mr. Blowhard, thinks that all one can do is accept that minorities are going to be lousy employees.
America's black poverty culture (as opposed to the Asian or East Indian) poverty culture is handicapped by a terrible, false syllogism:
- Slavery was work
- Slavery is evil
- All work is evil
Even when they're getting paid, too many African-Americans seem to feel they've sold out — that any work involving the white establishment is tantamount to slavery and that they can participate in this system by participating least. It's a principled stand, but it's a principle that's in thrall to terribly flawed logic and that ensures generational poverty and despair. As far as I'm concerned, Newt gets serious kudos for his willingness to state what is, to the working class, quite obvious: learn how to work well when you're young, and you'll be able to support yourself when you're old.
Newt Gingrich and "the vision thing."
Back in 1987, when he was campaigning for President, one of George H. W. Bush's advisers suggested that he back off from spouting minutiae to the electorate and spend some time focusing on the big picture, So that he could better sell himself to Americans. According to contemporaneous reports, Bush, Sr., was not impressed:
"Oh," said Bush in clear exasperation, "the vision thing."
Bush went on to win the 1988 election, despite his failure to articulate a vision for the American people. He didn't have to engage in inept abstract fumbling to endear himself to voters. What he understood, consciously or unconsciously, was that Reagan had articulated "the vision thing" so beautifully that it covered, not only Reagan's own administration, but Bush's election efforts as well.
It helped, too, that Reagan passed on to his Vice President a roaring economy and a country that still maintained at least the gloss of an American identity. Back in those days, even though I was only just out of law school (meaning I'd spent the previous 19 years in academia), I'd never heard of political correctness, community activists, multiculturalism or Howard Zinn. I called myself a Democrat and had never heard of a Progressive. Although these ideas were making serious inroads into American education in the 1980s, those of us who cast our votes in 1988 were still relatively untouched by the revamping of America's self-image. Nobody needed to tell us who we were, because (probably thanks to Reagan) we already knew.
Things are quite different as we head toward the 2012 election. America is in a deep economic morass, college students and Communists are rioting in the streets, Europe's economy is collapsing, China's economy is shrinking, and the Middle East is a more-seething-than-usual cauldron of antisemitism and anti-Western hatred. Times such as this would seem to cry out for a strong managerial hand. It ought to be Mitt Romney's moment. After all, he radiates wonkish competence.
And yet Mitt Romney is not the conservative candidate of choice. Instead, he's the conservative candidate of "we'll take him if we can't find anyone else." If you look at the alternatives, the ones who have risen and then fallen, all have one thing in common: they've got "the vision thing." Mitt is disciplined, effective, intelligent and decent, but he's not a visionary — or, if he is, his rhetorical skills are too weak to convey that vision to the American people.
Mitt's problem is that not all of America's current wounds can be measured with economic charts and analyses about our friends and enemies abroad. Both Barack Obama's presidency and forty years of relentlessly Leftist education and media saturation have severely damaged America's sense of self. As a nation, we no longer have a unifying vision. Our children have been raised to think that we are now and always have been a racist, imperialist, overbearing, heartless, capitalist monster that preys on weak, victim-class individuals and helpless third-world nations. The fact that readily available facts put the lie to this ideology doesn't help these children and young adults. Instead, when the Leftist ideology that dominated their education meets the facts on the ground, that clash creates a paralyzing cognitive dissonance. The result sees the members of Generation ZZZZZ marching through the streets, grimly clutching their iPhones and computers, whining about student loans incurred at fancy Ivy Leagues, and hysterically protesting against corporations and banks.
America's impaired sense of self pre-dates Obama's presidency. Indeed, it was this pre-existing psychological damage that put Obama on the path to the White House. He made Americans feel good about themselves, not in traditional terms (individual liberty, melting pot strength, world bastion of freedom, etc.), but in wonderful New Age terms: we were all going to come together in a giant kumbaya circle, and throw our ill-gotten capitalist gains into a giant, village style collection bin set up in the heart of Washington, D.C.. Then, the Capitol, under Obama's magical aegis, and with help from a supportive Democrat Congress, would lower the seas, clean the air, cause the lion (and myriad polar bears) to lie down with the lamb, and generally bring about an environmentally perfect socialist utopia. If you liked fairies and unicorns, Obama was your man.
Back in the 1950s, had a candidate spouted this utopian vision, he would have been laughed off the national stage. A generation raised on Depression and War was a bit too sophisticated to buy into political fairy tales. Back then, Americans knew who they were: tough survivors; a free people who, at the cost much American blood, had brought that freedom overseas; and innovators. They did not believe in pixie dust. This latest generation, however, raised on self-loathing, needed a fairy tale, with the kiss of a handsome prince magically making everything better. To many, Obama was that prince.
The Obama fairy tale, sadly for his followers and sadly for this nation, did not end with the kiss and a formulaic "they lived happily ever after." Instead, we've had almost three years of utopian reality, which has been remarkably painful. Obama and his crew have offended our allies, pandered to our enemies, presided over the break-up of a stable (although always ugly) Muslim Middle East, destroyed our gains in Iraq, presided over the longest recession in our history since the Great Depression, increased our debt and deficits to previously unimaginable limits that will burden our children and grandchildren, laid the groundwork for destroying the best medical system in the world (and that's true despite inequalities in the systems), handed over billions of taxpayer dollars to cronies, killed American citizens with bizarre "crime fighting" plans across our Southern border, increased racial divisiveness to a level not seen since the early 1960s, and generally left Americans prey to a doom and gloom that seemed inconceivable when they elected the magical unicorn man.
What Americans feel now is despair. Or as Jimmy Carter might have said, malaise. Democrats are stuck with Obama, but Republicans have the opportunity to select a candidate who will articulate a core American vision. As our desperate search for the anti-Romney shows, we don't just want a competent, clean-cut wonk; we want someone who bring to life a unifying vision of this nation, not as some sort of post-American socialist paradise, but as an entirely American bastion of freedom and opportunity.
For all his baggage and, yes, periodic political instability, Newt is that spokesman. The breadth and depth of his knowledge, his cheery demeanor, his up-beat campaign, his wit and erudition, his scary deep understanding of how Washington works, and, above all, his manifest love for America — all of these things promise voters an alternative vision to Obama's 2008 "kumbaya world" or his 2011 "everybody is evil and stupid except for me" world. It helps that Newt's skeletons, rather than hiding demurely in closets, are out dancing merrily in the streets. Everything about him will be hashed and re-hashed, but it will all be old news. To the extent there are "surprises," they will be mole hills, not mountains.
In this lost and confused time, Americans need a clarion voice. If Romney is the chosen Republican candidate, I will happily vote for him, as I believe he will be a perfectly decent candidate, able to un-do much of the damage Obama and his cohorts caused at home and abroad. But Romney is not a clarion voice, and Newt is. It's that "vision thing" that explains why I think Newt will win the 2012 Republican nomination — and take the White House too. America didn't need it in 1988, but it sure needs it now.
Focusing on Newt's virtues
The alternative title for this post is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Scott Galupo is no Newt Gingrich fan, but he genuinely hates Mitt Romney, whom he describes in the same terms once used to describe Tom Cruise: "I don't sense a man there. I sense a bristling mass of ambition." He sees Newt as flawed, but with one genuine conservative accomplishment under his belt, while Mitt has done nothing to earn the conservative description but for the fact that he's placed the "R" after his name:
Still, there's a way Newt can effectively undermine Romney and get himself back in the good graces of the conservative base. He needs to stay out of the briar patch of Romney's position on this or that issue, and focus on one thing: his accomplishments as speaker.
If I were Newt Gingrich, I'd dial down the "vision thing" and draw these contrasts:
What has Mitt Romney ever done, while in office, to advance the conservative cause? He got himself elected in a bedrock liberal state and served four unspectacular years. Whoop-de-do. Name one instance where Mitt Romney fought for conservative principles when it didn't suit his electoral needs.
Newt was the architect of the most significant rightward shift in the politics of the whole nation, not just one state. Domestically, he did more to slow the growth of government than Ronald Reagan did. After he departed, the party beat a retreat from the Contract with America legacy, and, under Rep. Tom DeLay, emitted an ethical stench far more fetid than the overblown controversy over Gingrich's book deal.
I've said before and I'll say again that I will vote for anything or anybody that opposes Obama. I've also conceded that all of the conservative candidates are flawed. Indeed, the problem with our primary system, not to mention conservatives' own obsessive quest for candidate perfection, is that we tend to use the primary process to highlight the candidates' flaws rather than their virtues. Ultimately, I'm sure it's a good thing, because the eventual Republican nominee is thoroughly vetted by the time the media savages him (or her) for having the temerity to challenge a member of the Democratic Party. Nevertheless, it's a painful and somewhat damaging process, not just for the candidates, but for the voters too.
I will therefore vote for either Mitt or Newt. I'm not sure which of them will make me most or least happy, but I know that each will be better than Barack.
Hat tip: Earl Aagaard


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One of these days, Helen Flanagan may do a photoshoot with her clothes ON.
However, while we wait for that occasion to arrive (and we doubt we'd recognise her anyway), we can only show you new half-naked pictures of the former 'Coronation Street' star.
We know, you're as disappointed as we are.
The new shoot is all a familiar H-Flan-in-just-her-knickers-and-bra sort of affair, although someone clearly got a bit overexcited with that kohl pencil.
In case you hadn't noticed/are living under a stone, Helen has just been crowned the sexiest woman in the UK by FHM readers, so we can probably expect to see even more of this sort of thing over the coming months.
We can't wait... *groans*.
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|Spokane, Wash.
In January, 2011, Chris Tormey joined the Cougar Football staff as linebackers coach. Tormey, who grew up in Spokane, comes to Pullman after serving the past two years at the University of Hawai'i.
"Chris is going to be a great addition to our program," Wulff said. "He has been the head coach at both Idaho and Nevada, has 15 years of experience in the Pac-10, is a tremendous recruiter and is a very hard worker. He also grew up in eastern Washington and understands the uniqueness and culture of coaching at Washington State University."
At Hawai'i Tormey served as the special team coach and also assisted with the safeties. In his first season he coached Mana Silva, who led the Western Athletic Conference in interceptions with six.
Prior to Hawaii, Tormey served as the linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Washington from 2004-08, his second stint on the Husky staff. During that time Tormey had four recruiting classes ranked in the top 35 nationally, including the 2008 class, which was ranked 14 by one national recruiting site.
Tormey spent the 2000-03 seasons as the head coach at the University of Nevada, where he guided the Wolf Pack to a 16-31 record in his four seasons. Each year his teams improved its win total, culminating in a 6-6 mark during his final season.
From 1995-99, Tormey was the head coach at his alma mater, the University of Idaho, coaching the Vandals to four winning seasons in five years. He compiled a 33-23 record and led Idaho to its first bowl appearance, a Humanitarian Bowl victory over Southern Mississippi in 1998. That year, he was named the Big West Conference's Coach of the Year and led Idaho to a 9-3 record. Additionally, he was named the Big West/Mid-American/NCAA I-A Independent Coach of the Year by The Sporting News in 1998 and helped the Vandals break school attendance records by averaging more than 25,000 per home game in 1999, his final season at Idaho.
For 11-years, from 1984 to 1994, Tormey worked as an assistant coach at Washington. He coached tight ends, outside linebackers and the secondary. In 1993, he was the acting defensive coordinator and was named to that position by head coach Jim Lambright for the 1994 campaign. During his tenure the Huskies appeared in 10 bowl games and won the 1991 national championship.
Tormey began his college coaching career in 1980 as a graduate assistant at Washington for two years, and then took the defensive line coaching position at Idaho in 1982 for two years under head coach Dennis Erickson.
A native of Omaha, Neb., Tormey grew up in Spokane where he attended Gonzaga Prep. He was later an all-Big Sky Conference linebacker at Idaho from 1976-77 during his three seasons. As a senior, he served as team captain before earning a degree in education in 1978.
Following graduation, Tormey signed a free-agent contract with the Washington Redskins.
Tormey and his wife, Kellie, have two daughters, Leah and Emily.


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Prince William and Kate Middleton have finished their three-hour visit to East Lancashire.
The couple met sporting youngsters at the Witton Park in Blackburn this afternoon after earlier officially opening the Darwen Aldridge Academy.
The torrential rain that greeted their earlier visit to Darwen gave way to clear skies as the royal couple arrived in Witton Park at just after 1.15pm.
They chatted to dignitaries when they first arrived and were watched by large crowds lined up on the other side of a running track.
Kate was given the honour of starting a 100-metre race and held up a flag and let it drop to give the teenage female athletes their cue.
The pair walked around the track, speaking to some of athletes and waved the crowds.
Miss Middleton looked down the track as the runners sprinted towards them, then stepped back as they flashed past.
William clapped as they jogged to a halt and the winner came up to the couple to collect her medal from Kate, who in a warm gesture touched the teenager briefly on the shoulder while the royal shook her hand.
The prince and Miss Middleton went on to meet all the runners and a group of teenage boys also dressed in their athletics kit.
David Barnett, 36, from Samlesbury, stood under a tree cradling his daughters Caitlin, seven, and Grace, four.
"I want to go home, daddy!" his youngest cried.
Mr Barnett, a tool maker, said: "It was my idea to come, I dragged the kids along and my wife dropped us off and has gone shopping.
"But we thought we had missed it all with the amount of people coming away when we arrived.
"The conditions are just abysmal."
Natalie Sailor, 16, from Lancaster, was the winning sprinter in the race, and was presented with a medal from the couple to commemorate their visit.
Miss Sailor, a student at Our Ladies RC College who trains with Blackburn Harriers athletics club, said: "It was very nice to meet them. They asked me if I preferred 100 or 200 metre races.
"Kate looked very, very pretty."
Holly Bleasdale, 19, from Euxton, a pole vaulter hoping to compete for Great Britain in the London Olympics, also spoke to the couple.
"William was asking me about how my training was going, I train 12 times a week," she said.
"It was really nice to meet them and an honour really."
The couple had earlier spoken to youngsters taking part in a football skills session with the help of local Premier League club Blackburn Rovers.
Miss Middleton was presented with a small posy of flowers while William asked the children which team they supported.
To shouted replies of "Liverpool", "Rovers" and "Man United", the prince enquired: "Any Aston Villa fans here?
"No? Oh well, it was worth a try," he said with a smile.
William was then introduced to Paul Robinson, goalkeeper for Rovers, who was stood alongside the children.
The footballer told him: "I think they have got some big ideas about you going in goal for them."
William and Kate also delighted disabled youngsters taking part in cycling activities, with the prince at one stage sitting on a four-wheel bike.
After the track and field events the couple responded to shouts from the crowd five deep behind barriers lining the athletics track, imploring them go and say hello.
Most of the shouts, and it appears most of the interest from the crowd of mainly mothers and young daughters, was towards Miss Middleton.
Sue Barker, from Preston, had brought her nieces Madison, six, and Vienna, eight, to catch a glimpse of Miss Middleton - and got to shake her hand and say hello.
"I brought the children because they are doing about them in school at the moment," Ms Barker said.
"Kate asked the kids if they were keeping dry under their macs. We are all soaked to the skin but it was worth it.
"Kate is beautiful."
Yards away William laughed and joked with the crowd. One woman begged him to turn around and wave towards the other end of the park, where she said a group of schoolchildren, "cold and frozen", had made a big banner and were waiting to see him.
William turned around, looked into the distance and replied: "OK, waving away, waving away! Say hello to them from me."
Paul Ratcliffe and Josie Weeks had travelled from Pudsey, West Yorkshire, and both presented Miss Middleton with red roses, because she was in the Red Rose county.
"It's nice to see them and wish them all the best for the future," Mr Ratcliffe he said.
"I just gave her roses to welcome her and to say what wonderful news it is about their wedding. She said it was nice to be spoilt like this."
Ms Weeks added: "She is stunning isn't she? He's a lucky fellow, but mind you, so is she. They are both lucky to have each other. And even the sun came out at the end."
Sharon Mercer, from Blackburn, took her three children to the event, Hayden, aged six, Matthew, 13, and four-year-old Emily and the family spoke to both William and Miss Middleton.
Mrs Mercer said: "Emily said to Kate that she had a princess dress and wanted to be a princess when she grows up.
"Kate said there are a lot of children with princess dresses and told Emily she had a smiley face.
"We can't wait to watch the wedding on TV."
Click on the link below for our report from the royal visit to Darwen and photos.


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There were high hopes back in February that we were amid a new kind of merger mania on Wall Street.
- Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, BRK.B) teamed up with 3G Capital to purchase consumer staples icon H.J. Heinz (NYSE:HNZ) for $23 billion.
- Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA), a broadband service provider, announced a $16 billion plan to buy Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED).
- American Airlines parent AMR Corp. (PINK:AAMRQ) announced a deal to merge with US Airways (NYSE:LCC) for $11 billion.
- Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) decided to purchase the rest of NBCUniversal from General Electric (NYSE:GE) for $16.7 billion.
But since then, the dealmaking vibe has all but disappeared on Wall Street — raising concerns that the mergers and acquisition business is stuck in first gear after a very volatile market and macroeconomic overhang relating to Europe, U.S. employment, China and other issues.
The issue is partially a global concern, with worldwide dealmaking falling substantially; as reported in a Tuesday Dealbook report by Michael J. de la Merced, "Only 8,115 deals were announced worldwide in the first quarter of this year, the lowest number since 2003, according to data from Thomson Reuters."
But it's also worth noting that U.S. merger and acquisition activity remains particularly sluggish — especially considering how deals increasingly are being driven by players abroad instead of in the once-dominant U.S. capital markets. In Q1, for instance, global deals outside the U.S. totaled more than America's M&A activity by a hair.
So what gives? A broad-based rally for the markets, sending both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 to new highs, should give buyers confidence. So should a generally improving economy with lower jobless numbers, a rebounding housing market and other encouraging data. Most importantly of all, the ZIRP tactics of the Federal Reserve means there's no incentive to saving and that financing for big-ticket deals is super cheap and readily available to prospective buyers.
If you're going to make a deal, now would be the time.
… except for those little concerns like an EU breakup thanks to Cyprus, continued chatter of a China housing bubble and worries that a dysfunctional Congress could impede any domestic recovery.
The problem is an old one on Wall Street: Do you buy the rally and hope for the best, or do you sit on the sidelines until the dust settles even if that means missing out?
In a few cases, big buyers have dived in. But in the vast majority of others, cash-rich companies are prepared to bide their time — even if it means they are just treading water.
According to Moody's, U.S. non-financial companies held $1.45 trillion in cash at the end of 2012, up 10% from the record level of $1.32 trillion at the end of 2011. That includes Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) with about $140 billion all by itself.
Sure, a company like Apple could theoretically use a shrewd deal right now to breathe life into its struggling stock. But if there are bigger macro concerns that would render any deal meaningless … well, why bother?
In other words, if the recent spate of deals to start the year was seen as a bullish sign, then the current M&A drought is just as important an indicator in the other direction.
Related Reading
- Worldwide value of mergers drops 10.3% in Q1. (The Guardian)
- A great graphical look at deals around the world and by sector in Q1. (Dealbook via NYT)
- By the way, there's also an IPO drought. (Geek Wire)
- Is a private equity "crisis" the next domino to watch in the financial sector? (The Guardian)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of "The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks." Write him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing he did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.


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TRANTHAM/TRENTHAM Posted on: 30 Aug 1998, by Patti Trantham
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Macon
I am trying to locate information on the Trantham families or Trentham) of Macon County, North Carolina.
Edward B. Earle Posted on: 27 Dec 1998, by Goodspeed's Biographies
Localities > North America > United States > States > Arkansas > Counties > Clay
...drugs valued at $1,000, and is also a much esteemed citizen. September 15, 1887, he married Miss Clemmie Trantham, a native of Clay County, Ark. Both he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Chu...
MICHAEL, TRANTHAM Posted on: 22 Jan 1998, by debbra szymanski
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Davidson
I am researching the family of Joseph C. TRANTHAM (son of Martin TRANTHAM) who was b. 2 May 1798 Rowan Co., NC. d. 24 Aug 1866 Greene Co., MO. He married Sarah Ann MICHAEL (daughter of Nicholas MICHAEL) on 15 Aug 182...
Davidson Co. Surnames Posted on: 06 Dec 1998, by Sandra Milton
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Davidson
Any information on these surnames in Davidson Co is needed.
Need information about service of Martin Trentham, 1st NC Regiment, Bowmans Co. Posted on: 29 Aug 1998, by Barry
Topics > Military > American Revolution > NorthCarolina
Trantham(aka Trentham), Martin Served in Revolutionary War with 1st NC Regt., Bowman's Co. All I know is that he was a Private, and I would like to know more about his service or that of his company. email...
Tranthams of Missouri Posted on: 30 Dec 1998, by Jerry N. Waddell
Good morning, Trantham researchers. Since most of us are probably descended from Martin Trantham in some way, I suspect a lot of the traffic with this vehicle will go in that direction. I must tell you right now that...
Martin Trantham Posted on: 30 Dec 1998, by Bill Trantham
The descendants of Martin Trantham are at a website and go down the line as far as my father, William Ira Trantham, jr. It is not complete. I am interested in whether or not anyone has any information on Ira Trantham, son o...
Descendants of Martin Trantham Family Tree Posted on: 30 Dec 1998, by Bill Trantham
The site of the best family tree on Martin Trantham, Staffordshire, is at
Ira Trantham 27th Ark Inf. CSA Posted on: 27 Jan 1999, by Bill Trantham
Topics > Military > Civil War > Arkansas > General
Searching for information on Ira Trantham. Believed dead in 1863
Ira Trantham Posted on: 27 Jan 1999, by Mark Miller
Topics > Military > Civil War > Arkansas > General
The Roster of Arkansas Confederate Civil War troops lists Ira Trantham as a private in Company E, 27th Arkansas Infantry with a reference that he also served in Adams' Infantry Battalion.
Trantham and Batten familes Posted on: 01 Feb 1999, by W.W.Cooper
Localities > North America > United States > States > Texas > Counties > Crockett
...searching for information on the parents of my grandmother and grandfather. My grandfather was Sidney J. Trantham. He attended church at Pearces Chapel in the 1880 time frame. He had brothers named Robert L. ...
Patrick D. Gilchrist Posted on: 02 Feb 1999, by Sandra Milton
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Davidson
Looking for any financial or personal papers held by Patrick D. Gilchrist. In particular, I am seeking an inventory of his agricultural assets or tax papers reporting the value of property held by him...
Patrick D. Gilchrist Posted on: 02 Feb 1999, by Sandra Milton
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Davidson
Looking for any financial or personal papers held by Patrick D. Gilchrist circa 1850-60. In particular, I am seeking an inventory of his agricultural assets or tax papers reporting the value of proper...
Lindseys in Smith County and Kaufman County, Texas Posted on: 23 Jan 1999, by Bill Trantham
...second wife. They had five children. Nora Elizabeth Fender was my grandmother, wife of William Ira Trantham, Sr.
Nicholson/Trantham - NC Posted on: 06 Jan 1999, by Debbra A. Szymanski
...the parents of Amelia NICHOLSON b. 1770, d. 1810 Rowan Co., NC. Amelia was the first wife of Martin TRANTHAM b. 1774 Weakley Co., TN, d. 1824 Davidson Co., NC. Martin and Amelia were married 6 Apr 1795 in Sal...
James Thomas LONG Posted on: 27 Feb 1999, by Jim Long
...document I have on him is his marriage license dated 1883 in Carroll Co., Arkansas to Elzettie Rebeca TRANTHAM. James moved back to Missouri where the first 5 children were born, then to Indian Territory wher...
James Thomas LONG Posted on: 01 Mar 1999, by Jim Long
Thanks Bev, Maybe someday we will be able to tie them together. I'll share anything I might get in the way of responses with you. Stay in touch, Jim Long
L. D. Harrington, abt 1850, Sullivan Co MO Posted on: 28 Feb 1999, by Tammy Sharp
...1880. Family moved to Choctaw Nation Indian Territory around 1900. Husband: Harrington, L. D. Wife: Trantham, Matilda Supposedly had 5 children. Child: Harrington, Burch Buried: Fort Towson, Oklahoma Chi...
Mary Oliver m Ira Trantham Posted on: 24 Jan 1999, by Bill Trantham
I am seeking information on Mary Oliver m Ira Trantham, who had four children Susan, Jeff Wilson, and John Trentham/Trantham. She died in Dallas Texas in 1913 and buried at Oakland Cemetary. Her daughter Susan marr...
Trantham's Posted on: 06 May 1999, by NevaMcGuire11
I'm looking for a John Trantham that married Jennie Warren. He was born in Ms. and she was born in Mo. They had 7 children in Fort Worth, Texas. Is this your John? Thanks for any help Neva in Oregon
RE; GRANDMOTHER Posted on: 30 May 1999, by JoyTrantham76
...who might be able to help you, at least how you might find info. Please e-mail me at; email@example.com Joy Trantham
Trantham Posted on: 24 Jul 1999, by Karen Fesler
Localities > North America > United States > States > Missouri > Counties > Pemiscot
Looking for information on my great-grandparents who died in Caruthersville in 1933 & 34: Lonnie Trantham and Eliza Plunk Trantham
WHITAKER BOOK Posted on: 10 Oct 1999, by gbcgbc
Localities > North America > United States > States > Missouri > Counties > Wright
Book: WHITAKERS 1086-1990 by: Bill WHITAKER Pub: KENTUCKE IMPRINTS BEREA, KY 40403 Library of Congress Number ISBN 0-935680-51-9 on Wright Co MO Web site: 1850 Wright Co Mo Census #210-210 househol...
Looking Posted on: 23 Nov 1999, by Margaret H Champion
Localities > North America > United States > States > North Carolina > Counties > Rutherford
...listed surnames who in late 1800s and early 1900s lived in Rutherford, Polk Counties North Carolina. Trantham, Thomason, Suttles and Henderson lated moved to Cherokee and Spartanburg Counties, SC.
Ira Trantham, 27th Ark. Inf Posted on: 28 Jul 1999, by Bill Trantham
Topics > Military > Civil War > Arkansas > General
I am seeking information on Ira Trantham, 27th Arkansas Inf. He was from Green Forest, the son of Johnathan Trantham and Elizabeth Cunningham. He was survived by his wife, Mary Oliver.
Mercado Rodriguez - Isabela, PR Posted on: 31 Jul 1999, by JRN
Localities > Caribbean > Puerto Rico > General
...was the widower of Maria Romero Mercado. Surviving are three daughters, Sonia M. Racey and Marta M. Trantham, both of Sumter, and Xiomara M. Roy of Summerville; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildr...
need parents for Florence Roseann TEAGUE-TRANTHAM Posted on: 20 Sep 1999, by Robbin
Localities > North America > United States > States > Georgia > Counties > Union
I am searching for parents of Florence Roseann Teague who later married J. Trantham. Her family is from Union (later Fannin County) Thanks!
James M. Chitwood Posted on: 17 Sep 1999, by Melissa
Looking for information regarding James M. Chitwood, born 1815 in Tennessee; married Harriett Ross, born 1817 in Tennessee. Children: John, born 1842 in Georgia; William M. born 11-17-1844 in Georgia;...
Harriett Ross Posted on: 11 Sep 1999, by Melissa
Looking for information on Harriett Ross, born 1817. Married James M. Chitwood. Daughter Laura E. Chitwood, born 1-13-1857, married John L. Fulks, born 8-12-1855. Other children include John, born 184...
Joe Emily Posted on: 16 Oct 1999, by @@flowers@bri...
...married Chris's son, George, who was obviously named after Chris's dad George. I have heard from a Joy Trantham who told me that George (Chris's dad) was the son of Manuel Victorie Amily. Victorie(a) was a S...
Rickman Posted on: 11 Dec 1999, by Becky Wilson
I have a Merritt Rickman in my familytree. He was the son of Jesse Mary Trantham Rickman they lived in Rowan Co, NC in Mills River Vally. Merritt was born as a twin in Buncombe CO, NC in 29 Jan 1828 Marrie...
Trantham family Posted on: 05 Jul 1999, by feslers
Hello, Our family is now in Missouri. My grandfather, Lewie Gilbert Trantham was born in TN. His father was Lonnie Primm Trantham also born in TN. Mother was Eliza Plunk Trantham. If you have any information, I would apprec...
Trantham surname Posted on: 05 Sep 1999, by Caroline Nadell
I am also interested in Tranthams in Tennessee. My Great-grandmother was Mittie Trantham White, married first to Dr. Joseph E. White. They moved to Texas. There were 3 children from this union, including my g...
Trantham Posted on: 11 Sep 1999, by Connie Presler
I would be willing to exchange info on the Trantham from Ark,Ok, NC. They were my g-g-grandparents. Caladonia T.Trantham was the dug. of John Trantham amd Mary Ann Hartsoe.
TRANTHAM / BRANTLEY Posted on: 11 Jun 1999, by JoyTrantham76
Searching family history for John Allen & Margaret Ann [BRANTLEY] TRANTHAM. Born 1843 & 1845-TN. AR> TX> OK. Contact me e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or; Joy Trantham P.O.Box 372 Stanfield, AZ 85272-0372
Trantham Posted on: 05 Jul 1999, by feslers
Hello, I am looking for information on my great-grandfather, Lonnie Primm Trantham born in TN. He married Eliza Plunk. I do not have any information that you are looking for, but would appreciate any help fro...
TRANTHAM search... Posted on: 15 Jul 1999, by Sidney Michael Trantham
...some information about my family tree. I'm adopted, so I have few facts. My name is Sidney Michael Trantham, born 12/15/68 in Schenectady, NY. My father's name is Sidney Thomas Trantham and I believe he was raised ...
Surname Trantham Posted on: 02 Sep 1999, by Caroline Nadell
My maternal grandfather's mother's name was Mittie Trantham. She married Dr. Joseph E. White, who was my great-grandfather. They moved to Texas, where Jos. White died. She then returned to her original home, ...
Trantham surname Posted on: 02 Sep 1999, by Caroline Nadell
update on Mittie Trantham White. She was a teacher and music teacher. Her mother's name apparently WAS Mary Elizabeth Trantham, and her husband's name was Ephrium. He is identified as her FIRST husband.
update on Mittie Trantham Posted on: 03 Sep 1999, by Caroline Nadell
I have a death record for my grandfather that lists his mother's name as Mittie Smith Trantham, and a handwritten death notice (also the newspaper obit based on it) that says "Blackburn, Mrs. James, nee ...
Trantham Posted on: 22 Sep 1999, by Melissa Robins
Does anyones line cross over to my ggrandmother, Minnie Maybelle Trantham, born 6-16-1891(?) died 3-25-1963, married Thomas Aaron "Tom" Fulks.
Trantham,Watson Posted on: 09 Dec 1999, by Wanda Watson-Delp
Mary Adeline Trantham b.1824 TN., married Samuel Watson. Children: Wesley, Sarah O., Thomas H., Lucinda, Zachariah, Zilpha A., Nancy S. A., Samuel Hansford, Martha. Mary and some of the children moved from Le...
Mary (Polly) Trantham Posted on: 13 Dec 1999, by DStraggi
Hello Everyone, I am looking for information on my Great, Great Grandmother Mary (Polly) Trantham born 3-13-1833, she married Hiram Grubb on 1-20-1852.They had one child to my knowledge,a boy named Levi Jile...
C.T. J. [PERSONS] TRANTHAM Posted on: 18 Dec 1999, by JoyTrantham76
I'm looking for the family of: Claborne T. Joanna [PERSONS]TRANTHAM. Claborne-b-May 1854-MS. Joanna --b-Dec 1859-AR. Married--m-8 Aug 1880-Lincoln Co.,AR. Trying to complete the family history. e-mail---jade...
Joseph or John E. Trantham Posted on: 19 Dec 1999, by patt thomas
I am searching for any info on Joseph or John E. Trantham of Ga. or N.C. He married Mary Grant.
William J Trantham Posted on: 21 Dec 1999, by S Stack
I am trying to contact this individual. His birth name is Billy Joe Trantham DOB 4-23-38 (Not 100% sure of this date). His father was Clinton Trantham who died 1975 in CA. His mother was Mary Williams (also not 100%...
Trentham or Trantham of North Carolina Posted on: 27 Dec 1999, by Patt Thomas
Seeking info about John E. Trantham born 1843/44. Married Mary M. Grant in N.C.on Nov.18,1866.Later moved to Fannin Co. Ga. Would like to find some information on John's parents.
Absolom Trentham (Trantham) Posted on: 06 Aug 1999, by cyndi Maupin
I am looking for a connection for Absolom Trentham (Trantham) b.1770 SC? married to Mary Williams. I have unsubstanuated information that he is related to the Martin Trantham line, son of Martin and Anne Pickens. Any...
Absolom Trentham Posted on: 07 Aug 1999, by Bill Trantham
He was one of four children of Martin Trantham b1730 in NC and married to Anne Pickens. I am at a loss to any children he and Mary Williams may have had. I would be interested in finding the descent line from...
John A TRANTHAM / Margaret A BRANTLEY Posted on: 01 Jun 1999, by JoyTrantham76
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Two Events Set for UMass Rowing This Weekend
Minutewomen to compete in Head of the Housatonic, Seven Sisters Sculling Race
Atlantic 10 Announces Commissioner's Spring Honor Roll
UMass helps record-setting conference performance with 148 honorees
Atlantic 10 Announces Commissioner's Spring Honor Roll
UMass helps record-setting conference performance with 148 honorees
Five From UMass Rowing Honored With CRCA Awards
Miller named all-New England; Adams, Juul-Hindsgaul and Menks picked for scholar-athlete
Rowing Wins Women's Title At Dad Vail Regatta
Minutewomen secure five medals during second day of competition
2013-14 - Senior:
Fall 2013: At the Head of the Housatonic (10/12), finished third in the Open 4+ with a time of 18:43.3 and placed fourth in the Open 1x in 20:39.7 ... Took third at the Seven Sisters Sculling Race (10/12) in the double with a time of 22:49.6 ... At the Head of the Fish (10/26), placed second in the JV 8+ with a time of 14:12.60 and captured seventh in the Collegiate 4+ in 15:21.28 ... Earned silver in the Collegiate 1x D Final at the Collegiate Small Boat Challenge (11/3) in 9:05.51.
2012-13 - Junior:
Fall 2012: Finished in fourth in the open 4+ at the Head of the Housatonic (10/6) with a time of 19:21.34.
2011-12 - Sophomore:
Fall 2011: Did not compete.
2010-11 Freshman:
Before UMass: A 2010 graduate of Chelmsford High School ... Rowed with the Essex Rowing Club during her senior season.
Personal: Rebecca Elizabeth Adams ... Born March 18, 1992 to John and Patricia Adams ... Has three siblings, Connor, Ben and Jayden.
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As the pace of Lexus' design evolution quickens, Head of Lexus Kiyotaka Ise tells Lexus owners what to expect in the next 14 months.
Progress relies on change. Without evolution, nothing would improve. So it's natural that Lexus, always striving to perfect its unique approach to luxury, is changing. But this time, the changes are happening faster and are more apparent.
At their heart lies a greater emphasis on a harder-edged kind of driving pleasure—an evolutionary path trodden by the latest GS sedan, the LFA supercar, and, most recently, the LF-LC coupe concept. Many more will follow. So what, precisely, does this new era herald? Head of Lexus Kiyotaka Ise has a few answers:
LEXUS: We've seen some dramatic changes to Lexus vehicle design in the last 12 months. But how would you say Lexus is changing?
Ise: We want to move towards "progressive luxury." We are aiming to make Lexus cars even more advanced in their use of technology—and their design will show this.
How will that be reflected in their design?
We were more into "elegant" in the past. Now we're adding greater visual presence to that elegance. You should be able to identify a car as a Lexus immediately, but, until recently, this aspect has been a little lacking. Now that's changing. Instant visual recognition, for example, is the reason behind our spindle grille—a prominent feature of the new GS, LX, and LF-LC coupe concept.
Would you say the spindle grille is a symbol of Lexus' desire to project performance and aggression?
It may look aggressive at first glance—that's intentional—but it also conveys its boldness with sophistication and elegance. These sentiments reflect how Lexus is evolving. Every new Lexus model will feature a spindle grille—it will be a visual embodiment of the shared values between all Lexus cars—but each model will have its own interpretation to reflect that model's individuality.
Likewise, they will share sharper body language and a stance that conveys their driver-orientated focus. But each model will express its distinctive personality through details, such as the treatment of the front and rear lights. Expect significant developments where the headlamps are concerned.
You mentioned shared values between all Lexus cars. Which of those values are gaining increased prominence?
I've touched on the greater instant recognition and design excitement. We'll also be concentrating on emotional driving pleasure and advanced technology. The intention is to make the driver and car feel as one. A supercar like the LFA or a coupe like the LF-LC concept will take this to a more extreme level, but all Lexus models will share the ability to reward their driver. The new GS is an example of that. It's spacious, practical, refined, luxurious—yet it feels sharp and agile on a mountain road. Also, hybrids will remain a core feature for us.
When will we see this evolution in action?
It has started already with the LFA, new GS, and LF-LC concept. During the next 14 months, there will be significant changes several models—either new cars or revisions to existing ones.
Do you think Lexus owners will like the changes?
We sincerely hope so. They are our primary motivation. If customers appreciate a car, then it's a good car. If they don't, it isn't. Our customers determine whether or not it's good. We also strive to offer something beyond their expectations—the first generation of LS and RX are good examples—and we have more innovations in the pipeline.
We'll be offering customers greater opportunity to personalize their new cars, too. So there are two factors: creating something new by innovating and drawing from our deep well of customer feedback to improve existing models. But ultimately, the customer is the real decision maker. For us, that will never change.


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During the course of the last six years, WBA/WBC light heavyweight title holder Chad Dawson 31-2 (17) has defeated Eric Harding, Tomasz Adamek (who went 10 rounds with WBC heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko four years later) Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver twice each along with all-time great and legend Bernard Hopkins in his last fight before fighting the baddest super-middleweight on the planet, Andre Ward, this past Saturday night.
From the start of the third round on Ward systematically took apart Dawson. Ward had Dawson down in the third, fourth and 10th rounds of the fight. When Dawson beat the count and got to his feet after being knocked to one knee in the tenth round, he not only signaled with his demeanor to referee Steve Smoger that he was finished, he actually said it. And although the audio is pretty difficult to decipher, it is clear enough to discern that Dawson said "I"m finished, I'm done" and "it's over."
With that, referee Smoger immediately stopped the fight and spared Dawson from being further damaged both physically and psychologically. Now, unfortunately, Dawson is being excoriated as a gutless coward by some wannabe tough guy writers and fans, which is another layer of proof that guys who are quick to call a professional fighter the caliber of Chad Dawson a coward and quitter have never had their ass on the line and if the gloves were thrown to them, they'd throw'em back. Believe me when I say it, I've seen that scenario played out many times during my travels.
Another thing that's mind boggling is, those who are now praising Ward as the best and most complete fighter in boxing just so happen to say in the next breath that Dawson is a bum and a quitter, something that wasn't uttered once in any column or discussion I heard in the run up to the fight. And if that's the case, why is Ward receiving so much praise for beating a bum? It's amazing how after a big fight the winner is lauded for being so spectacular, yet the loser becomes an onion because he lost to a supposed great fighter, the winner.
Instead of the winner is great and the loser sucks mentality, why don't fans see the reality of the situation? That being, in this case Chad Dawson is really some fighter, but Andre Ward must be outta this world good in order to be able to dominate and control Dawson for eight of the 10 rounds they spent in the ring fighting. Just look at the fighters Dawson beat on the way to fighting Ward.
The last thing Dawson ever thought about or envisioned was a scenario in which Ward could handle and control him so convincingly, that before the end of the 10th round his confidence cup would be completely empty and he'd be willing to tell the referee in front of millions of people that he'd had enough and was to the point to where he accepted that there was nothing he could do to seize the fight and beat Ward.
Do you know how much it takes to push a fighter like Dawson to say he's done while he's still on his feet and capable of at least attempting to continue? Remember, this is the same fighter who accused Bernard Hopkins of looking for a way out and bailing on him after he threw Hopkins to the canvas during the second round of their first fight when Hopkins injured his shoulder.
It's the most disheartening thing in the world for a fighter in his prime like Chad Dawson to get into the ring with someone who he thinks he can beat (or, at worst, he thinks is more or less his equal), and then find out that he's getting beaten up round after round. In a way, it's worse than getting knocked out early, since that can happen to almost anyone. But if you try everything you know how to do, and the other guy is simply better at everything, and then he starts to systematically hurt you, it just takes away every shred of belief you have in yourself.It must be like a nightmare. You can't make excuses. The only conclusion you can come to is "this guy is a lot better than me." Who wants to have to confront that?
Think about all that Ward did to Dawson during the last eight rounds of the fight. He showed Dawson that he could hurt him, and that Chad really couldn't hurt him. He also convinced Dawson that he not only had an answer for any and everything he tried, but he also had ways and means (head and body feints, and punch variation) that Dawson couldn't anticipate or stop. And lastly, as the fight was progressing Dawson was starting to get hurt and feel some pain for either waiting on or guessing wrong against Ward.
After the third knockdown of the fight in the 10th round, Dawson was to the point psychologically that he not only accepted that he couldn't beat Ward, but also knew that if he continued trying he'd probably end up back on the canvas. The point is, Ward showed Dawson enough down the stretch of the fight that really spooked him and he didn't want to risk being further embarrassed or knocked out, a position that no other fighter had ever pushed him to before.
This is not giving Dawson a pass, because at the end of the day Ward made him say "No Mas." It's also apparent that Dawson doesn't posses a constitution quite as deep as Matthew Saad Muhammad's or Alexis Arguello's, but no other fighter came close to shaking him physically and psychologically the way Andre Ward did this past Saturday night.
Think about what it says about one elite fighter who beats another elite fighter into submission before he stops him. Dawson was hurt and embarrassed enough by Ward that he knew there was no way he could pull the fight out. So in essence he said to Ward, I know I can't beat you and you don't have to knock me out to prove it so I'm done.
I don't like the way Dawson went out. I know he couldn't have won, and I know that he was getting banged up in there, but I think of what Nacho Beristain told Juan Manual Marquez (who was also getting beaten up) before the last round of his fight with Floyd Mayweather: "Finish with dignity." I hope those reading this understand that no real fighter is a bum. Dawson is a hell of a fighter. But I would have preferred to see him try to make it to the bell. That said, Andre Ward is a beast and a very frustrating guy to fight.
So instead of calling Dawson a bum or gutless coward, marvel at how good Ward was during the fight and that he was able to do something no fighter ever did to Chad before.
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Totally agree......Dawson seemed to become more and more despondent and sullen as the one sided whipping worn on.....It was like Dawson became defiant in a perverse way. As if he way saying .." I refuse to go all out"...because that would only acknowledged how thoroughly dominated he was in the fight...and he refused to give Ward the satisfaction. Dawson reminded me of an overworked factory employee who tries to slow down when the supervisor barks an order at him in a disrespectful tone ..."pick up the pace you slob"....the employee tries to express his resentment by slowing down, but does it in a very imperceptable manner.... because he's afraid he'll lose his job. Dawson chose the only other alternative which was to walk off the job when the opportunity became available, ...exercising the only control...The only choice he had left in the bout.... but his position has become severely compromised. He retains his title but his peers will treat him like a temporary employee. Bad Chad had to toss in his own towell and his future opponents will never let him forget it. Like the author said .....the right words from his corner might have inspired him to rise beyond his personal pain....if that failed his corner could have stopped the fight proper. Either way Dawson didn't need to suffer any further punishment fighting a hopeless battle. Whether he can redeem his value as a fighter is yet to be seen.
I agree with Pugilistic SuperMasterWeaving Scribe F-Lo with about 75 percent of this piece of his. SuperBadChad is far from "a bum or gutless coward." But he's pu$$y whipped something terribly. He lost the bout way before entering that squared jungle.
He needs to separate his business in whuppin arse from his sexual gettin' down with his wifey while he is in training. Juices coming from a cat's body any time within at least a month or two before the BIG FIGHT, "Ain't no good," in the words of the oldtimers/old-school trainers. And that jive "weaken LEGS!"
Boksing cats, who always want to hit dat Y action or work dat hand job will always come up with some junk science to rationalize doing dat nasty or dat work of putting Ms. thumb and her fingers too pop da weasle too close to fight time. Hehehe!
SBC plainly and simply did an "unforgivable" punking OUT! He shoulda went out on his shield. Fighter FIGHT! Not QUIT! But SBC was deceived by reality. His brain was shrunked from water fasting [drying out] then bumrushed with too much water within 24hours, and that dang starvation dieting did a job on his brainwaves. That nutritionist of his should be arrested for attempted murder.
Like I said before, SBC was more fudged up than a delusional snake-bitten nomad in the desert on dat dang fantasy diet of the SBC's nutritionist. And SOG's punches were food that SBC couldn't handle -- the salt or sugar in dat ___ ___ ___! Hahaha! One just cannot be eating anything. Hehehe! Holla!
Great write up F-Lizzo, I especially like the third paragraph and it's quite true. Nobody who puts in the the blood, sweat and tears into the Sweet Science would be so dismissive of the hard work and dedication it takes to make weight and come into the ring in great boxing shape. My glutes, thighs and back burn right now from dipping under the rope in the ring. My ab muscles locked up on me while doing crunches with the weight ball. So I tend to give fighters the benefit of the doubt and not knee jerk spout off insults and insinuations. I agree with you and Radam that Chad should've went out like a soldier or finished with dignity. I don't understand quitting, I'm too stubborn I guess. Someone would have to stop it or I'll just take my medicine if it came to that, no lie. When I had my first child I started thinking about how I'd be remembered. When they put me in the earth what would they say about me? Your father was______. You understand what I'm saying? I just told my lady what Radam said and she tells me " Oh yeah that's a no no" because her track coach told her that. I says bay....they told the women that? She said no they told the guys but we were right there an it was no cut cards. She said one guy got some and the track coach yelled at him "NO CHEEKS, NO CHEEKS" with his St. Thomas accent LOL!!! Chad remember that next time"NO CHEEKS" LOL!!! Cheeks make you weak!!! This girl is stupid LOL!!!!! I think Ward would win at 175 and whether Chad snook some or not doesn't matter. Ward is the better and more complete fighter and had the anecdote for Chad. P4P prince!!! Won't be long now! Dueces
I'm glad he said "no mas". It's terrible watching a fighter take heavy shots way after the fight has been decided. When you're thinking, "how much long term damage is this beating going to cause?", there's no point in continuing. And I don't feel any less respectful of Dawson for ending it when he did.
RE: Marquez/May... Marquez wasn't getting dropped repeatedly and May wasn't going for the kill so that was a different scenario.
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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The Origin of the Baptists By S.H. Ford
Chapter V—Century XIV - Wickliffe and the Lollards
A bright star rose on the darkness of the fourteenth century, and threw its light over Britain and the continent of Europe.
It was the darkest hour of that long night of Papal oppression. Over that darkness and dead silence, from the Avon to the Tiber, a sound went forth from Lutterworth; a light from the center of Britain. A memorable spot is that little village, with its old, tottering church still standing. Near that village Richard III buckled on his armor for the battle of Bosworth field. Near it Wolsey fell, and with him the power of Popery in England. There, too, stands the memorable little ground of Naseby, where Cromwell and liberty triumphed over the defeated despot Charles.
Lutterworth! Associations cluster round it more potent in their influence than the clash of armies or the fall of kings. The lone voice that went forth from it, the light that gleamed from it in the fourteenth century, are heard and felt still—must echo and beam through all time, and all eternity. It was the voice and light of truth—truth which once generated is immortal. Chains can not bind it; time can not weaken it. Eternal is its nature; eternity is its guardian.[1] John De Wickliffe, rector of Lutterworth, was the chosen instrument to announce that truth, and bear aloft that flame-torch through the world's valley of the shadow of death.
On the banks of the Tee, in Yorkshire, John Wickliffe was born, in 1324. With Bradwordine, and Occam, and Dunn, and Scotus, the luminaries of the age, he passed his early manhood in Oxford University. He entered the clerical order, and beheld before him the highest honors in the "Church." But, like Luther, God's Word had found entrance into his soul, and, in obedience to its teaching he tore away from his heart the webs and wrappages of error which incased and deadened it. On, step by step, he struggled into light, until on the Bible and the Bible alone, he took his sublime and defiant position. Among the principles he advocated were, that the church consisted only of believers—the saved; that baptism was a "sign of grace received before," and consequently should be administered to those only who professed to have received "grace."
"It was in 1371," says Walsingham, "that Dunn and Wickliffe read the accursed opinions of the Berengerians, one of which undoubtedly was the denial of infant baptism."[2] Thomas Walden, who was familiar with his writings, called him "one of the seven heads that rose out of the pit, for he denied the baptism of infants, that heresie of the Lollards of which he was so great a leader." And further, Wickliffe, in the eleventh chapter of his Trialogues, as quoted by Danvers, states that "believers are the only subjects of baptisms."
In his adherence to the Bible as his only rule of faith and practice; in his denial of grace or pardon communicated in baptism; in his rejection of infant and avowal of Christian baptism; and in his clear definition of a church as an assembly of baptized believers—Wickliffe was a Baptist. Among Baptist heroes and martyrs must his name be enrolled. As one of them he was reviled while living, and, forty years after his peaceful death, his ashes were violated by the foes of truth.
But Wickliffe did not stand alone. Thousands were around him, and followed him. Branded, burned, and driven from the haunts of men, these Wickliffites—these Baptists—were found scattered throughout England. "They were as numerous," says Sir William Newbury, in his History of England, "as the sands of the sea."
Here, then, we have found these people in the midst of the fourteenth century. Where did these Baptists come from?Did they originate with Wickliffe? Did the "morning star" of the Reformation usher in the advent of the Baptists, whose existence previously was not? Let us see. Milner, in his History of Christianity, says
That these Lollards were Baptists is evident. The denial of infant baptism we have already seen was the "great heresie of the Lollards."In the Dutch Martyrology is an account of one L. Clifford, who was arraigned as a Lollard, and confessed and recanted, acknowledging that they renounced infant baptism. And Fox, in his Martyrology, has extracted from the register of the Bishop of Hereford, one of the charges of which the Lollards were found guilty—"that faith ought to precede baptism."
Of these Lollard Baptists was William Sawtre, the first name in that illustrious roll of martyrs who died for soul-freedom in Britain; and soon after, at the hour of midnight, one hundred of those down-trodden Christians assembled to worship God among the bushes of St. Giles, near London, hoping, at that hour and unfrequented place, to be free from detection and molestation, were tracked and murdered by the king and a troop of his courtiers.
Among the Lollards was one illustrious man of title, wealth, and courage. It was Sir John Oldcastle, Earl of Cobham. He was apprehended and brought to trial before the Bishops. He met them and their charge with fearless intrepidity. Nobly he avowed and advocated the doctrines which have distinguished Baptists in every age. Honor and preferment were before him if he would but recant; disgrace, ignominy, and death the reward of his steadfastness. He chose to be numbered with the scorned, down-trodden, vulgar Baptists; and confront shame and suffering, rather than abandon or betray the immortal principles that inspired them.
Faith, inwrought, heartfelt faith, shining, without a shadow into the depths of a man's being, revealing the eternal verity of the thing believed—faith resting on a rock which the rush of a wrecked universe can not move—this is the soul of true heroism. There never was a hero without it. Dragged, amid insults, to Tyburn to be hung up by the waist and burned to death, his possessions confiscated, his family impoverished, his name cast out as evil, Sir John Oldcastle never wavered. This was the victory whereby he overcame the world, even his faith. In death he warned the people to follow nothing but the Scriptures; prayed for his enemies, and exclaimed, "I die in triumph! "
And so he received the crown which celestial conquerors wear. Pity or regret found no place in the hearts of his sanctimonious murderers. "He was an Anabaptist." said Parsons the English Churchman, "and deserved to die as a traitor."[3]
In an old history of the Welsh Baptists are recorded the labors and sufferings of an intelligent, active Baptist layman, who, from Wales, passed into England in company with a preacher. His name was Walter Brute.[6] Arrested and brought before the Bishop of Hereford-shire, he confounded his adversaries by his fearlessness and acquaintance with the Scriptures. In the account of his trial, recorded by Fox, is his written answer to the Bishop:
Such was the fearless denial of Episcopal and church teachings which Baptists dared to utter centuries before Luther was born, and which is their leading characteristic still. Walter Brute was condemned as an Anabaptist.
But from the ten thousand sufferers of the poor Lollards we must pass. There still stands at this hour the gloomy monument of their miseries on the banks of the Thames—the Lollards Tower at Lambert Palace, London. Fitted up as the palace of their torture by the Bishop of Canterbury, in 1414, it stands there a witness to the triumph of truth. It speaks with an awful, yet prophetic eloquence, of the future of the Baptists.
But still the question occurs, these Baptists, Lollards, Wickliffites—Whence came they? Was Wickliffe, then, their father and founder?
It must be remembered that Wickliffe was denominated by his persecutors, "The leader of the Lollards." It is evident that thousands of these Lollards hailed him as a great light, whom God had raised up and sent forth amid the darkness. That he adopted their principles, and became one of them, there is little doubt. But why were they called Lollards? Now Mosheim, with whom there is a general agreement among historians, states that "Walter, a Dutchman of remarkable eloquence, and famous for his writings, who came from Mentz to Cologne, was burned there in 1322."[7] Fuller and Perrin state that he came to England in the reign of Edward III "from the Waldenses, among whom he was a great barb or pastor." That this man's name was Walter Reynard is most evident, and, "Lollard," a term of reproach, was given to him and his brethren because they were accustomed to sing psalms and hymns. Abelly says the word is derived from loben,"to praise," and herr,"Lord." But, however this may be, the fact is unchallenged, that Walter the Lollard, a shining light in the midnight of Papal darkness, after passing from country to country, lifting his eloquent voice and scattering over the wintery seed-fields the germs of truth, passed through England to build up the scattered flock of Christ there, and then breathed out his great soul amid the fires of martyrdom, before John Wickliffe was born.
That this Walter Lollard was a Baptist is unquestionable. He came from the Waldensian Baptists to England, and found Baptists there, who were afterward called Lollards. And these English Baptists, who welcomed this eloquent teacher among them, may be traced to a still higher date. At the time when the Norman nobles of William the Conqueror were crushing out the spirit, the language, and nationality of Englishmen; when a foreign priesthood and a foreign tongue were forced by cruel edicts upon the prostrate Saxons—there were those who still dared to avow their deathless attachment to the simple truths and ordinances of primitive Christianity. During the reigns of William and his son Rufus, they were subjected to insults and persecutions, and were denounced by the imported Popish Bishop, Lan frank, of Canterbury.[8] Gascony and Guienne, the domains of the Duke of Normandy, were, at the conquest, attached to England. The intercourse between the latter and the Pyrenean mountains, became general and intimate. "In Gascony the heretics," says the old monkish historian, Sir William Newbury, "were as numerous as the sands of the sea."A company of these Baptists were found in England in the tenth century, and is thus described by Henry in his history of Great Britain, which, in substance, corresponds with Napier, Collier, and Lyttleton:
A further account of these people and their treacherous treatment, is found in the Dutch Martyrology, or "Martyr's Mirror,"[9] which places the date in 1161, and gives abundant evidence that they were Baptists. Their leader was branded on the forehead and chin, and, as they were driven, bleeding and naked, out into the wintery fields to die, he raised his voice in triumph, singing—
"Blessed are ye when ye are hated,
But they did not all perish.There were among the crushed Saxons a hatred to their foreign oppressors, kings, and priests, and a common sympathy for those who suffered from Norman cruelty. The seed was scattered, and a half century afterward, Walter Lollard preached among these same Baptists, Waldenses of England.
The Lollards, the Wickliffites—the suffering, struggling pioneers of the Reformation—we have found them away up amid the darkness of the middle ages—found them weak, yet fearless; few, yet mighty; poor, yet powerful—sublime in their sufferings, and triumphant in their prostration. Baptists they were, whether represented by Wickliffe, or Lollard, or Gerard. Neither the power of man, nor the gates of hell could prevail against them.
But from the Lollards, and from England with it blessed and elevated by the truths they cherished, let us pass still upward, marking this or them as a milestone in the path of time.
[1] Bancroft.
[2] Neal's History of the Puritans.
[3] Dr. Thomas Fuller, Church History, vol. ii, p. 488.
[4] Fox, Acts and Monuments.
[5] Ib., Book of Martyrs, p. 224.
[6] "While the Lord was employing the immortal Wickliffe to prepare his way in England, he remembered Wales in his tender mercy, and visited her with the dayspring on high. The pioneer in the cause of the Reformation in Wales was Walter Brute, who was a native of the principality, and who had been at Oxford, where he became acquainted with Wickliffe, with whom he formed an intimacy, and fully entered into his views respecting the reformation of the church. It is an old adage, that like begets like, which was verified in the ease of Brute. Having reflected on the pitiable condition of his countrymen, who were bewildered in the haze of ignorance, his heart was moved with compassion. He left the university, endowed with the principles, fortified with the intrepidity, and fired with the zeal of his colleague; and fully determined to resist the delusions and abominations of the secular church, even unto blood, he entered his native land, where he soon distinguished himself." Fox says, that Walter Brute was "eminent in learning, gifts, knowledge, zeal, and grace."
"He fearlessly sounded the trump of God throughout the land, until, in a few years, the huge temple of Antichrist began to crumble, and its gilded worshipers to tremble for their safety. As his weapons were those of truth and righteousness, and his cause the cause of God, his victory was certain, and he soon became instrumental in rescuing the prey from the mighty, and in delivering many lawful captives. His disinterestedness becoming generally known, and his labors of love appreciated, he found a number of steady friends among high and low. It may be supposed, that in traversing the country to preach the truth, and to seek the lost sheep of the house of Adam, that the established churches were closed against him; for we learn that he was preaching from house to house, and in the chief places of concourse and elsewhere, and conducting the worship of God with the greatest simplicity. He maintained that baptism was not necessary to salvation; and that it was to be administered to adults subsequently to conversion. And he frequently took occasion to protest against the doctrines and discipline of the Established Church. His zeal for the truth and his exposures of the Papacy, soon elicited the hostility of the clergy, and fixed upon him all the envy of the sons of the Church. Such was the importance attached to him and the cause he promoted, and such a wonderful reformation he had been instrumental in producing, that all the attempts of ecclesiastical judicatories, and of the ministers of the civil law, to arrest his progress, were vain and ineffectual. Finally a petition was presented to Richard II, king of England, praying his majesty to interfere in behalf of the Church, in the prosecution of the heresiarch, Walter Brute, whose words the land was not able to bear. The insolence, oppression, and exactions of the clergy had become quite intolerable to the lords and squires, whose hereditary high-mindedness would not suffer the sons of Levi to surpass them in authority or splendor. Many of the great congratulated Brute in putting a check to the clergy from no other principles than those of personal interest and envy; and gladly availed themselves of the opportunity to chastise their powerful rivals. Besides, the Reformation had so extensively prevailed among all ranks, that some of the great and nobles were pious reformers, and others were impelled to yield to the force of public opinion.
[7] History, p. 356.
[8] Fuller, Ecclesiastical History, vol. i.
[9] This rare book is in the Jesuit's College of St. Louis.
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Looking for some help with a tax code for Turkey.
we need to set up a tax code that does two separate calculations triggered by this one tax code.
Net Amount Charge = 100
Special Telecoms Tax of 15% of net = 100*15% = 15
VAT of 18% of net = 100*18% = 18
Gross Amount = 100 & 15 & 18
not sure how to set this up. has anyone done this kind of thing before?
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you must create new The condition type for telecom tax
Create a new tax code using tcode FTXP, within the tax procedure for Turkey. In the tax code activate two condition types. Assuming its output tax, activate MWAS and another condition type (if not existing create a new one lets say XXXX).
For MWAS condition type maintain rate as 15% and from level as 100 (i.e. net amount) and for the other condition type maintain rate as 18% and from level as 100.
In this way, the tax @ 15% and 18% will be calculated on the base amount.