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    Highlighting David Poff’s Update on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense “Human Sense”

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    I interjected this piece because I worked with David Poff as he rewrote Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to reflect 20th Century American prose, and...
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    “It is French”, an Introduction for a Lifetime of Observation and Study

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    A few days ago I mentioned a comment used by Mark Twain, more than once I'm told, to convey a broad principle that perhaps...
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    The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells

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      In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what...
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    From a Paper War to Real War

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    Renewing a suggestion she made in 2021, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once again suggested a "national divorce" this past February. Now, I'm a fan...
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    Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley

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    First written in 2010, my best known essay from my "Famous Common People I Have Known" series (also found individually here), I'd very much...
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    A Harlan County, KY native, Vassar served as an Army criminal trial lawyer in Vietnam-era Asia. After his military career, he spent a number of years in corporate manufacturing management, in the textiles industry, where he crossed paths with a few too many new-generation Gordon Gekkkos and chose to move on to consulting work on behalf of "Con los pobres de la tierra quiero yo mi suerte echar", first in SE Asia, and then in the Soviet Bloc. Vassar dedicates the remainder of his life to committing his thoughts and observations to pen and paper.  
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