I went to my state university 1964-1968, having to work my way through school, with no car, and a part-time wage of $2.40/hr at a book store, where I worked 30 hours-a-week, for 4 years. In those days our state…
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One Ring to Rule them All- Part the Second; Kidz
If I showed photo arrays of the mug shots from kids arrested and released without trial over the past few years around Portland, people we lump together and call “Antifa”, (which has become a national organization today, with units just…
One Ring to Rule Them All, Part First
One Ring to Rule Them All, Part First Ayn Rand identified and described them in 1964, as both a condition and a threat. If you have a shelf of select references, her book of essays from 1971, Return of the…
To Pause and Reflect, The Fourth of July
As I’ve noted before I was born and raised in a company town. Coal mining. And every July 4th the mines shut down and the town gathered at our school football stadium, where half the field was lined with stands…
Wikipedia and the Killing of History, a Guide
This will be a short note to highlight a link to a subject I researched for a commentary about Manifest Destiny mentioned in historian Bernard DeVoto’s book 1846, the Year of Decision (1943). Almost no American student, history major or…