The Starving Raise
This past week, the Congress of the United States passed a new $1.3 trillion 2,232 page omnibus spending package which almost no one even tried to read before being called to vote on it. Buried in the package is a…
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Author Archive: Professor Wall
South Africa and the Sneetches
Reading the shocking news which came out of South Africa last week, one would feel like they were in a new episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. The South African government passed a law whereby land owned by white landowners…
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The 2017 Elections – Much Ado About Nothing?
Election Day and it’s aftermath is always one of the most humorous times in the calendar for this author. Reading all the ‘evaluations’, the panic attacks and the victory crows as well as seeing the so-called ‘analysts’ trying to understand…
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Rural Sense Show Ep. 1: NFL Debacles – LA Chargers & Taxpayer Stadiums
In the Inaugural episode of the Rural Sense Show, Professor Wall welcomes fellow blogger and NFL fan Paul Wilson in for a discussion on NFL debacles in San Diego and Los Angeles and the controversies surrounding taxpayer-funded stadiums…
Book Review – A Legacy of Spies (2017)
There will be no war, but in the struggle for peace not a stone will be left standing, as our Russian friends used to say. – George Smiley Author: John Le Carre Publisher: Viking Genre: Espionage Reading Level: Adult My…
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The Looming Counter-Trump Disaster
They will not accept, under the name of liberty, any model of government but that which is conformable to their own opinions and ideas, and that all men must learn from the mouth of their cannon the propagation of their system. – William Pitt the Younger Over these last few months as the laughable political circus that is the Trump-Russia investigation has unfolded, a fear has been steadily growing in my mind; a fear of a possible result as this circus…
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Film Review – The Circle (2017)
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. – George Orwell (1984) Directed by: James Ponsoldt Music by: Danny Elfman Starring: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, Karen Gillan, Bill Paxton MPAA rating: PG-13 My Rating: 7 of 10 I am not normally one who does in-depth research on modern films and looks ahead to what will…
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Trump Will Not Save America
I have been of the belief for about a year that Donald Trump will be America’s Mikhail Gorbachev. Policy-wise, he will begin to lead our country in certain directions it needs to go and he should be supported in his…
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