America’s Guy Fawkes Day
The events of January 6, 2021 in America bear disturbing resemblances to an event in English history that was used to disenfranchise a whole class of people and which is commemorated in Britain every November 5…
Politics
September 11th and the Stories We Tell
“Did you open your eyes, hope it never happenedClose your eyes and not go to sleep?Did you notice the sunset the first time in agesOr speak to some stranger on the street?Did you lay down at night and think of…
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Different Yet the Same: The Case to Unite
“Did you hear of the city on the hill Said one old man to the other It once shined bright, and it would be shining still But they all started turning on each other You see, the poets thought the…
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In Defense of Dak Prescott
Quarterback Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys is no stranger to controversy. After the way his career has unfolded to date, it probably should not come as a shock that he found himself in the midst of another controversy; this…
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Paul Revere, Longfellow, and the Message of Unity
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.” – “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry…
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The Neocons Last Stand?
Considering the power of the Deep State, it was probably foolish to expect President Trump to hold out forever against their efforts to destroy the Iranian Nuclear Deal. Now that the damage has been done and the United States has…
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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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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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