The National Constitution Center and ConstitutionDay.com, among others, have more info. Celebrate reason, inalienable, individual rights, the rule of law, and republican government!!
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Happy Independence Day!! I don’t like calling it “July 4th:” July 4th is just a date; Independence Day is a moral-political principle. As Thomas Jefferson said (HT: Illyn R): “In matters of principle, stand like a rock…. The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned […]
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“It’s Raining Sunbeams” by Deanna Durbin. And oh how “I Love to Whistle.”
Read MoreBeautiful Black & White
When movies were not moving pictures, but moving paintings, moving works of art: Jeanette MacDonald sings “Vilia” in Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Merry Widow.” Gorgeous. Wow. This scene in which Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing “Sweetheart” is gorgeous, too. The beginning and end, especially, look like paintings. You could stop the shot and hang a […]
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One of America’s all-time favorite, highest-paid actresses. She’s certainly one of my favorites: she is benevolence personified and has a beautiful, operatic voice. There are a good number of video clips from her movies on the Internet that are absolutely worth watching, like the song “Perhaps” (1 min 51 sec), “The Turntable Song” (1 min […]
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“You’re Just a Country Boy” by Alison Krauss. I absolutely love that wispy, floating, soft voice…
Read MoreHow a Differential Gear Works
The instructive video from the 1930s was an “Around the Corner” presentation of the Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Sales Corporation, and was produced by the Jam Handy Organization. HT: Dr. Paul Hsieh.
Read MoreOld Time Radio Shows and Music
Radiolovers.com – Free Old Time Radio Shows describes their Website as follows: We offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen […]
Read MoreClassic Country
“Heard It In a Love Song” by the Marshall Tucker Band (live).
Read MoreEleanor Powell Dancing in A Western
She does the Western Rope Dance in “I Dood It,” a 1943 MGM movie directed by Vincente Minnelli, that is… (The movie is not a Western…just the song…) This dance number is amazing. I highly recommend it. It is fun, joyful, entertaining, and tightly, carefully choreographed. What they can do with ropes and lassos…wow…
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