A couple of House Republicans are going to introduce a bill this week to direct the US Mint to strike 400K Silver Dollars with Kirk's face on the obverse side of the coin with "well done, good and faithful servant" on the back.
Now that's a legacy that would ensure that the posterity will always be reminded of Kirk's philosophy of debating our differences instead of violently settling them; that he will not be lost to history in our Union.
Any bets on how many Democrats will vote yes on the bill? I’m guessing just a few that are planning on retiring anyway. Giving that honor to a “white supremacist Nazi” wouldn’t fly with the demented left base of demons.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
I'm would actually give it a very good chance of passing, even in the Senate. Susan B Anthony graced a coin, as did Sacagawea. Maya Angelou was on a quarter. Dolly Madison, Eunice Kennedy, Rosa Parks, Blessed Mother Teresa, all the first ladies got a $10 gold coin, Negro Leagues Baseball, March of Dimes, Christa McAuliffe . . . quite frankly I'm surprised that MLK never had a commemorative coin, but maybe we can address that at the same time and do a coin for MLK and one for Kirk at the same time since they both espoused dialog over violence.
Maybe there's a reason for at least a measure of hope . . .
A liberal professor at Georgia College & State University celebrated his role as faculty advisor for his school’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter in a New York Times guest essay on Friday.
"Being a liberal professor who advises a branch of Mr. Kirk’s organization isn’t a contradiction; it’s proof that exchanging ideas with both conviction and civility remains possible when we’re willing to model it," Creel wrote.
Creel said he never expected to join the group but agreed after a student asked him to help start the chapter when other faculty declined.
Despite their ideological differences, Creel remarked that the student — who became the TPUSA chapter’s president — "was nothing less than a politically engaged young man who was sincerely interested in constructive dialogue" and reminded him of himself when he was in college.
Personally, I'm shocked that the Gray Lady published the essay . . . not their usual style to publish anything which might paint conservatives in a positive light. The comments, however, were exactly what I would expect them to be given the ideological base of the subscribers.
