America’s Ho-Hum Reaction to a Space Crisis: A Sign of the Times

Two American astronauts are stranded in space. Decades ago, this would have been a defining national moment that glued Americans to their televisions, gripped the media, and stirred an overwhelming demand for action. Instead, today’s response has been mostly muted. There has been no widespread panic, calls for immediate solutions, or presidential speech rallying the nation.

Can One of the Chest-Thumping Neocons Tell Me How They Intend to Actually Win the Wars They Are Pushing?

Elwood P Dowd is one of the liberal commenters on my good friend William Teach’s The Pirate’s Cove. The distinguished Mr Dowd is a Democrat and true hater of President Trump, and every so often, he gets me rolling in my response. He wrote: If Trump abandons Ukraine to Putin, the Baltics are likely to …

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George Washington – Legislator

The great George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732, and served about seventeen years as a delegate in the Virginia colony’s House of Burgesses. He is remembered for many other things as well. The Father of his Country was known as a successful merchant, farmer, and horticulturalist, a prominent frontier …

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When Family Members Play Heroes of the Soviet Union

Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов) was a supposed hero of the Soviet Union: In 1932, at the age of 13, Morozov reported his father to the political police (GPU). Supposedly, Morozov’s father, Trofim, the chairman of the Gerasimovka Village Soviet, had been “forging documents and selling them to the bandits and enemies of the …

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