The Plain of Weehawken, and the Loss of a Hero

Reflections on the anniversary of America’s most tragic duel… Early in the morning of July 11, 1804, the Vice President and the former Secretary of the Treasury stood on the Plain of Weehawken – a wild land in New Jersey, where the laws were different from civilized New York, across the water – and they …

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A Tale of Two Cities, 2024

Recent elections make Paris and London like true twin cities than the opposites they were during the French Revolution tale.  Yet, an historical repeat is happening, of sorts, like it was before Bastille Day 1789 when both France and England could have had a revolution.  In 2024, both France and England are heading towards civil …

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Once Again, the Hoitiest and the Toitiest Rally in Favor of #Hamas

Stanford University, 2024-25 tuition only: $21,709 per quarter, a private university in the Pyrite State, has a joyous image of commencement featuring a pretty, blonde girl openly smiling and cheering and clapping her hands in the California sunshine headlining the university’s website main page, or at least they did at publication time this morning. Stanford, …

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