This is, and isn’t what you think it is. If all the history you learned was in high school and college, unless you specialized, you got American History and Western Civilization. And western civilization followed a more or less direct…
Category: Religion
We all have that One Song Buried in our Memory
Actually, I have more than one and when I hear one of them, I get a tearful memory from the past that only that music can unlock. I’m not talking about sweet nostalgia here, like the first you ever slow-danced with a girl. (“16 Candles”,…
Deplorables, The Return of the Taught
Among the Baby Boomer generation, there must be two (2) major missions we agree to undertake before we pass out of sight. We are all that remains of “the taught”, so practically speaking we have until our generation passes away to…
Antifa Nazis and the Rise of a New Fascist Thug Army
In 2013. I wrote “The Difference Between Crony Capitalism and Fascism” and just reread it. It stands up pretty well even though Obama and Holder are gone (sort of) and the relationship between the State and the Corporate in the High…
The Many Oaths of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an army of 40,000 battle-hardened French…