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April 25, 2024

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Excerpted Repartee. (content added Sunday).

This exchange took place in the “comments” section ” at the “Center of The American Experiment” I’ve not had an opportunity to seek permission for the rights to present both sides, but I wanted to get this out AQAP. The subject at hand was a “protest” of the National Anthem and TAPS being presented at

A (Very Brief) Veterans’ Day Message, 2017

While I haven’t yet joined any of the various Veterans’ organizations, locally, since the move, I want to take a moment, (before 11:11 today), to THANK ALL of my brothers and sisters at arms who ever wore a uniform and survived. It may sound trite, but, there was a day when each of us “wrote

Article 85.

Some time ago former president Obama PRAISED then US Army Sgt Beaudry Robert Bergdahl for serving “with honor and distinction”. We LOST 6 MEN and a Combat DOG, (a claim disputed by (E-9 Type) CSM Ken Wolf who, in Stars & Stripes, said ““It doesn’t hold water because you’re in a very bad neighborhood regardless.

I Carry A Loaded…

Copy of the Constitution. Don’t believe me? Stop me on the street, in the market or anywhere else. I can draw it out almost as fast as I can my weapon. The “pocket” versions of ALL of our foundaing documents are available from many sources. I got mine from the Heritage Foundation, (www.heritage.org), for a

A Blue-eyed Guest Essay, Redux.

This is the second guest essay by a very dear friend of mine. I can only hope, one day, to be able to express sentiments such as this as eloquently as she. Enjoy this, every word, for all it’s worth. I sincerely hope there will be a “#3” and more. Thank you, M’Lady! Where’re We

Circle analogy. Revisited.

I made an analogy the other day in the podcast. I used a circle to describe it. The farther right you go, you’ll end up left. The farther left you go, you’ll end up right. I realize, today, that a circle might not have been the best illustration. So I’ll amend it. Let’s use a

As A Matter Of Fact, I AM “Entitled”!

You might be, too. But there are others who are not. I’m growing resentful. Calling different public welfare and other benefits “entitlements” is misleading, mis-characterizing, obfuscatory and just plain wrong. Here’s something I don’t get. Of all the waste and such in government, what are Veterans’ benefits, Social Security and Medicare, (benefits that are TRUE

I’ve HAD IT With Conservatives!

Oh, dear reader! Please don’t take this in the wrong way! I am still way to the right of Genghis Khan. Joe McCarthy still looks at me and thinks: “DAY-UM!”. The Duke and Ronald Reagan are in heaven wondering why they never shook my hand. But there’s a lot at stake in the next many

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