Showing posts with label Americanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Americanism. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Rather Than Repeat Myself

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     – which is what you expected from me on America’s 250th Independence Day, isn’t it? – allow me a few thoughts snatched out of the lumin...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

A Mandatory Theft

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     Yes, Gentle Reader: there are times when stealing is mandatory. Our favorite Graybeard has provided one:      It cannot be put any...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

Unspeakable? Why?

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WARNING! Rough Language Ahead! Send the kiddies out of the room!      Nearly fifty years ago, a great jurist, Associate Justice John Marsh...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

What Americans Do

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     I’ve gotten a lot of feedback about The Wise and the Mad. Not all of it has been positive. Some of the comments have castigated me for...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

The Resilience Of America

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     This might strike my Gentle Readers as something of a “one-off,” a piece deliberately set at odds with most of what I write. I must adm...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Wounds

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     “You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap ...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

A Credo For Our Time

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     This comes from the worthy proprietor of A Nod To The Gods:      I have had enough of hearing Obama say “This is not who we are as a ...
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