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 the French are a people that cannot be trusted. My own study of history, including French…
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When Madison Avenue Moved Heaven and Hell to Snare Millennials from the Abyss of Having to Grow Up
My wife and I stumbled across a 2001-2002 drama series on one of our movie networks. It was called “Nero Wolfe” by Rex Stout, a product of the A&E Network. Stout wrote detective novels between 1934 and 1975, mostly being…
ID posters -Soviet Tanks, T-72 & T-64 UNUSED-Used in UKRAINE today
GTA 30-3-24, Unclassified, 1981, updated to 1987 and passed around to units and Allies, as they were used by the Iraqis in Desert Storm. The T-72’s are still a part of the Polish military stockpile and they are about to…
Republicans v Republicans in Arizona, Look for the Flash Points
The “Patriots of 1776” actually began with the Boston Massacre in March 1770, which was a street protest against unfair taxation. Sam Adams, to my mind the “real” Adams in the American pantheon of Founders, actually was a brewer,…
First Principles; the Constitution, Big Government and Peter Strzok
In the Introduction to his biography of Alexander Hamilton, former “National Review” editor and historian Richard Brookhiser wrote that “As an orator, he was not spellbinding. His method…was to find the first principles (emphasis mine) of his topic and tirelessly,…