immigration

Mexico Lindo, A Brief History

vassar - February 23, 2019 3

Three men, standing at the Mexican border, looking south: Man #1: Mexico Lindo. Man #2: I don't see nothin' so 'lindo' about it. Man #3: Just looks...

Vindman

vassar - November 26, 2019 3

When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff's impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen...

First Principles: First Impressions about America

vassar - April 20, 2019 4

Anyone, anywhere, who hears the name "America" already has a first impression about America; either positive or negative. It doesn't matter if he/she is 18...

A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias

vassar - September 20, 2019 0

This is a hard subject to talk about. President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of "becoming American" was still...

Putting the “SERVICE” Back into Public Service

vassar - January 19, 2020 0

A favorite subject of mine (from a 2011 series, The History of Government Employment, Part IV), "service" is an important theme in an important election year,...

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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.