Religion

American Theology Simply Stated, The Transcendence of Liberty

vassar - December 25, 2015 2

The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a...

Slutty White Women and the Church

vassar - February 11, 2012 0

It's up to us to make the political hay here.

The Doctrine of Liberty, The Original Republican Brand, Who Owns It?

vassar - June 19, 2013 0

I claim primacy for the GOP that is the older of the two, as well as the one that claims the greater chance of actually growing in size

Trump and Sessions Must End the California Nullification Crisis Sooner Than Later (Updated)

vassar - January 19, 2018 3

(I should have waited a day, too hasty on the Nullification part, needed a rewrite.) (I originally titled this piece "Lincoln Fought a Civil War to...

Mark Twain, Caiaphas and the Mystery of Satan

vassar - September 20, 2021 2

During one of his stand-up routines late in life, Mark Twain said he'd always wanted to meet Satan. Shake his hand. (I paraphrase from...

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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.