A favorite subject of mine (from a 2011 series, The History of Government Employment, Part IV), “service” is an important theme in an important election year, which could, if we do things right, dictate the course of America for the next 30…
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A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule
While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake these into confections using their own…
Vindman
When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff’s impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen originally from Ukraine, I first noticed the CIB (Combat Infantryman’s Badge) he wore. That told me he was no…
Crime Syndicate; How China and Russias Bought off the Washington Establishment
My background for this observation is 30+ years with China, the Far East, including the last days of the Soviet Union in both Russia and Ukraine in 1991-1992 and finally the mostly Balkans through 2009. This is a book I’ll never get to write; too…