The Problem: You probably don’t think about this very much, but you actually need to know stuff in order to qualify as a bone fide flag-loving Patriot. I don’t do Twitter very much, only follow about 1500 people, and a little…
Category: 2020 election
Thomas Paine, A Common Sense Curriculum
I wonder if millennials even know who Thomas Paine was. In the early 1960s I studied American History in college, as a required core subject, courses even engineering students from India had to take in order to get a degree. I’m not…
Christ Did Not Say, “Blessed are the Vain and Arrogant”
This is a cautionary tale directed at those who self-identify pretty much as the title suggests. This is not to say that Christ did not love such people, which weighs on me terribly, because it is something I find almost…
The Ease of Erasing History
I’ve always had an interest in the history of history. For one, that historians are even remotely interested in the lives of ordinary people is a relatively modern notion. 3000 years ago, even 600 years ago, the historian was that 1…
Old Lawyers Shouldn’t Die, They Should Just Fade Away
(Photo, Doug Miller, New York Times) I believe that Robert Mueller has always believed that Donald Trump was capable of any crime, if he thought he could get away with it, and took the job as Special Counsel with that in mind.…