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Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Russia’s Biggest Hoax, Remembered

vassar - April 22, 2020 0

vassar / April 22, 2019 (Written years ago, this used to be an annual celebration of Leftist cupidity, but now it's getting...

Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve

vassar - April 5, 2020 0

When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The...

Science versus God. Who will win?

vassar - February 16, 2020 5

Has anyone been able to explain "how" the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required...

The Devil and Mark Twain, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien

vassar - August 17, 2019 0

Late in life Mark Twain had to go on the road to raise money to pay his creditors because he'd invested poorly. In the process he probably...

Remember the Jacquerie

vassar - October 5, 2013 0

The law has become the common man's prison.

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A Billionare Of Words

haystack - March 3, 2025

Special Features

Comparing Ukraine and Russia; Russification under Stalin and Ukraine;

vassar - October 25, 2024

American Exceptionalism

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

vassar - October 13, 2024

2024 election

JD Vance, Tim Walz, and Thomas Jefferson Reminding Us

vassar - October 2, 2024

In The Can

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.