Antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo will be wearing “all black to mourn the victims of Obama’s wars, and the death of our old republic” — Inauguration Day, 2009: A Day of Mourning. Just when “the death of our old republic” occurred is open to debate, but we all agree that it is dead. Gore Vidal gave us a date, February 27, 1947, when “Harry Truman replaced the old republic with a national-security state whose sole purpose is to wage perpetual wars, hot, cold, and tepid.” Others, like Laurence M. Vance, suggest the date might go back as far as 1787 — … Continue reading New Nation, New Anthem