Unqualified Reservations.
There are plenty of political crackpots on the internet, but how many condemn the American Revolution and support the Jacobite cause? How many go back to actually read Tory papers from the 18th century and Confederate papers from the 19th? Have you ever read the Tories' side? Chances are you haven't. Chances are you've been taught that America is wholesome and awesome and good and apple pie.
That's why UR is awesome. I love writing that changes my perspective on the world.
Edit: Here's a nice fisking of the Declaration of Independence from 1776:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&...
Some quotes with Moldbug's commentary:
" The last time I had the honour of being in your Lordship's company, you observed that you were utterly at a loss as to what facts many parts of the Declaration of Independence published by the Philadelphia Congress referred..."
Moldbug: In other words: these Congress people are so whack-a-doodle-doo, half the time your Lordship can't even tell what they're talking about. Presumably "your Lordship" is Lord Germain. Dear reader, how does your own knowledge of the Declaration compare to Lord Germain's? Weren't you amused, for instance, to learn that
" I know of no new offices erected in America in the present reign, except those of the Commissioners of the Customs and their dependents. Five Commissioners were appointed, and four Surveyors General dismissed; perhaps fifteen to twenty clerks and under officers were necessary for this board more than the Surveyors had occasion for before: Land and tide waiters, weighers, &c. were known officers before; the Surveyors used to encrease or lessen the number as the King’s service required, and the Commissioners have done no more. Thirty or forty additional officers in the whole Continent, are the Swarms which eat out the substance of the boasted number of three millions of people."
Moldbug: or, most intriguingly, that
" The first in order, He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good; is of so general a nature, that it is not possible to conjecture to what laws or to what Colonies it refers. I remember no laws which any Colony has been restrained from passing, so as to cause any complaint of grievance, except those for issuing a fraudulent paper currency, and making it a legal tender; but this is a restraint which for many years past has been laid on Assemblies by an act of Parliament, since which such laws cannot have been offered to the King for his allowance. I therefore believe this to be a general charge, without any particulars to support it; fit enough to be placed at the head of a list of imaginary grievances."