New Amsterdam Incorporated: 2 February 1653

Smithsonian: New Amsterdam's First Laws: Less Drinking and Fighting

Dutch traders founded and ran New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1664 (when the British took over and renamed it New York). The city was formally incorporated as New Amsterdam on 2 February 1653. 

While official Dutch and Netherlands involvement in North America was limited in time--it had a huge impact on American culture. The business of New Amsterdam was always business. The South went more the landed gentry way.  New England flirted with socialism and theocracy. A lot of the culture of economic and individual freedom, limited government involvement, and Protestant work ethic came from those early Dutch colonists. 

EBL: The Purchase of Manhattan

AoSHQ: Morning Report 02.03.20

Reason: Mike Bloomberg just lost Nick Gillespie's vote over his Super Bowl ad

Instapundit: Declining To Fall: The British Invented The Modern World (with help from the Dutch)

Gloria Vanderbilt, RIP

Instapundit: Gloria Vanderbilt Dies, RIP

Gloria Vanderbilt had an interesting and varied life, but became a widely known cultural icon with her designer jean lable in the 70s and 80s. Beyond being Comodore Vanderbilt's great great grand daughter, she also a fashion model in the 40s and 50s. RIP. My condolences to Ms. Vanderbilt's son and family/friends.

Deadline: Gloria Vanderbilt Deat at 95

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.18.19

Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Vanderbilt in the 40s and 50s

Gloria Vanderbilt Memoir

Young Gloria in Paris with her Cairn terrier

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Goodstuff's: 226th ed

Woodsterman: Rule 5

Lem's Place: Gibson's Jury

American Power: D-Day 75th

Proof Positive: Best of the Web

Right Way: Rule 5 Link-O-Rama

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.17.19

Powerline: The Jury Hated Oberlin

Instapundit: China's Kobayashi Maru

DaTechGuy: China's rare earth mistake?

AoSHQ: Liars: Rep Omar (D-MN) & Iran

Animal Magnetism: Saturday Gingermageddon

Mark Steyn: Happy Father's Day and Wokestapo

Political Clown Parade: Flowing Curves of Beauty

Diogenes Middle Finger News: A Good Monday Morning

357 Magnum: Saturday Links and Even in LA: Enough is enough

Hogewash: Fauxcahontas B-Card Debate and An Uninsured Loss?

The Pirates Cove: If All You See and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

A View From The Beach: Toni Garrn, Pop the tequila, and Hero Bill Barr

Feral Irishman: Like This, TGIF, Frideyes, Ice Cream, and A Little Sexy By Request

Knuckledraggin My Life Away:  I’m sure she’s taken, men and I’ll leave you with this...

Ninety Miles From Tyranny:  Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Camp of the Saints: Remember BUNKER'S HILL!, Laura Rosen Cohen, and Leon Redbone RIP at 127

TOM: Real Courage: Jewish Journalists Address Jewish Role in Communist Subversion, Report: Trump Cancels Strike Against Iran, In The Mailbox: 06.20.19, ‘All the Leaves Are Brown …’, Dear Democrats: Please Nominate the Notorious Gaffe Machine Joe Biden, In The Mailbox: 06.19.19, ‘Parents Would Be Wise to Monitor the Activity of Their Children Online’, He Survived Two Tours of Afghanistan, But Then His Crazy Wife Killed Him, Trump Launches Re-Election Campaign With Monster Rally in Orlando, In The Mailbox: 06.18.19, Horny Teacher Sentenced to Prison, In The Mailbox: 06.17.19, LGBT Totalitarians Lose Again, Naming Names, Marianne Williamson Will Share DNC Debate Stage With Biden and Bernie, Hermione Granger At The Marco Polo Bridge, In The Mailbox: 06.14.19, Corporate Censorship: A Short History of the Social Media Thought Police Regime

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and fashion icons: 

TOTUS

Egotastic

Dust bury

HeroPress

Hogewash

Theo Spark

Daily Gator

O.K. Corral

Daily Caller

Wired Right

Pirate's Cove

Woodsterman

Proof Positive

DryBonesBlog

The Right Way

RULE 5 SITES

Blazing Cat Fur

MissK's World...

By Other Means

American Power

Irons In The Fire

Guns and Bikinis

SayanythingBlog

Raconteur Report

Doubletroubletwo

Angrymikes hood

The Last Tradition

Adrienne's Corner

The Feral Irishman

Camp of the Saints

Animal Magnatism

Maggie's Notebook

The Classic Liberal

The Rio Norte Line

Randy's Roundtable

A Nod To The Gods

Small Dead Animals

Grouchy Old Cripple
Sonoran Conservative

Raised On Hoe Cakes

My Muse Shanked Me

Political Clown Parade

24 Femmes Per Second

The Vulgar Curmudgeon

A View From The Beach

Diogenes' Middle Finger

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

Old Retired Petty Officer

Ninety Miles From Tyranny
The View From the Lady Lake
Knuckledraggin My Life Away

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

The Purchase of Manhattan: May 6, 1626

Peter Minuit and the Purchase of the Island of Manhattan 

Like the Pilgrim story, it is one steeped in myth and cloudy facts. But the fact remains the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was set an American pattern that still prevails today. That the business of America is business.

The Island at the Center of the World

Mental Floss: Was Manhattan really bought for $24?

Today in NYC History: How the Dutch bought Manhattan

“Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.”

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

The Virginian: Dinesh D'Souza speaks after the Trump win. If Trump's business was real estate, what was Hillary's business?  Watch the whole thing, especially Dinesh answering questions about the GOP embracing the American ideal of America as a ladder of opportunity to immigrants and working class Americans (spoiler: Trump did it in part, Hillary didn't do it at all).  

The Crubio Dream Lives On, But It Was Never Real

Spengler's Prediction Aside, 

How Does This Help Now? 
Jake Tapper presumably has a good source... 

Wallowing in what might have been does not help. I would have greatly preferred Cruz and Rubio as our presumptive nominees, but I doubt that unity ticket would have changed the primary outcome.

This was an unusual year and voters (on both sides) were looking for an outsider. The DNC was just more effective in blocking Crazy Socialist Sanders than the RNC was in blocking Trump. We are paying for past mistakes.

Ted Cruz unfortunately did not resinate with enough voters. While I still think Ted Cruz was the best candidate running (on policy) he is not a very good candidate on winning voters in a national race. Ted Cruz also burned way too many bridges on his path to the White House, which is why he is not the nominee. Ted lost allies he needed to block Trump's path.

The GOPe figured if we are likely to loose 2016, might as well lose with a one race shot like Trump than a conservative insurgent like Cruz. Of course, the establishment are divided.  Trump is not getting universal support from the GOP e either.

Cruz's attempt to appeal to the voters did not work. Not only did Ted Cruz fail to expand his base, he even managed to lose Evangelicals to Trump.

Of course, Marco Rubio severely damaged his brand prior to the race (ended up wasting resources battling with Jeb!) and was surprisingly glass jawed to a rough but predictable attack by Chris Christie.

Trump played on fear.  Okay, so do all candidates.  That is just one technique for winning.

Okay, this is a bit OTT (although it did make me laugh), but when you have to woo voters politics has always been about marketing and playing to your prospective audiences. Even when it was unseemly for candidates to run for office, they still ran for office through surrogates (think Ann Coulter and Hannity for Trump).

Joel Pollock actually makes a good point here. Cruz's New York Values comments hurt him badly in the New York primary.  That lack of momentum contributed to Cruz's crash going forward. With the momentum he had from Wisconsin, what could have been.

New York Values are what ultimately made the United States. Not the current New York political values (which are a mess and what Cruz was attacking Donald Trump for) but the free market entrepreneurial values of New Amsterdam which profoundly (and in a very good way) influenced the United States.

Instapundit: Why Trump Won, the slow blade penetrates the shield, they hate Trump but they fear Cruz, and where would Trump be if he ran as he actually is, the amnesty candidate? 

Rush Limbaugh: Vicente Fox blasts Trump's Taco Bowl (I have to admit, while definitely not thrilled by this election, I am going to enjoy siting on the side lines and seeing Trump and his critics take pot shots at each other).

The Walk: Philippe Petit and the World Trade Center, August 7, 1974

Not everything in Seventies New York City was bad…

It is all Greek to me (and you too)...is this our future?

A glorious civilization, now in ruins...

The Way the Greeks Live Now, by Russell Shorto.  Life goes on in Greece, but not as good as it was.  It shows (again) that Robert Heinlein was right about TANSTAAFL:  "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."  Eventually we all will pay.  


Russell Shorto's: Island at the Center of the World  This is a great book about the history of the Dutch colonies in North America (now New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) and I strongly recommend it.  Our Dutch predecessors focused on libertarian business and economics in their colonies and it was there influence that became the dominate one in the United States.  Well at least for a while.


Blogs to watch:  
Greece Economy Watch
Dollar Collapse:  Greece collapse postponed a few months, next up Portugal
Update:
Greece on the edge of collapse 
Debt is causing U.S. to follow Greece's example...
VDH:  Europe in the rear view mirror
Prior EBL Posts:
Working Hard? Suckas
Mark Steyn:  Thanks for ruining my weekend...
Why we are so screwed:  The U.S. Economy and Medical entitlements...

David Brooks: Deals with a profound issue with a completely idiotic "solution"

Growing caste divides in America are real.  So David Brooks does a decent enough job explaining Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" and then offers a completely idiotic idea to correct it.  A big new national service program is not the answer.  Does anyone even think forcing people to join organizations like the Peace Corps would even help the Peace Corps?  Here is a better solution:  How about the government stop subsidizing behavior that is harmful?  There were not only social but economic solutions that pushed people to adopt a frugal work ethic as a lifestyle.  Immigrants adopted the Protestant* work ethic of America (a gift of the Dutch traders in New Amsterdam) because it worked.  What made America unique was the upward mobility of persons in it (and this was adopted in successful countries around the world).  We live in a society now where you can get by without adopting it.  People should have the freedom to drop out if they wish, but we should not be subsidizing, helping, and encouraging them to do so.
h/t:  Ann Althouse

*  Not the New England Pilgrim/Puritan theocratic form which ultimately failed, but the business form of the Netherlands.