politics – Page 5

More of the Same: Academics Showing their Bias and Punching Down at the Working Man

I’m about to quit—give up and give in. No matter where I look or how far down the road I see, it’s still there. It’s in my

02 Jan

I hate filling out forms. The good news is that with modern word processors most of the most tedious jobs are done: name,

29 Dec

Should one take any time at all to study the writings of the philosophes, those of the eighteenth century that gave birth to

03 Dec

I decided a few months ago I was not going to write about politics any longer, preferring to concentrate on my historical

08 Nov

It’s a curious thing. As decades and centuries pass by, what was once considered grand, wonderful, stupendous or any other

23 Sep

I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this kind of despair before for the nation I live in. Every time I’d see the American flag

11 Aug

I’m rather bemused by the pundits and politicians who are exercising their supposed moral high ground as they chastise Jeff

27 Jul

His face was swollen, he was bleeding from a broken nose, and both his eyes were almost shut. This doesn’t even take into

27 Jul

“Let the blood of traitors flow. That is the only way to save the country.” Those words were spoken by Jean Paul Marat during

24 Mar

At times it’s a bit chaotic in here, inside my head. Think of a room with flashing lights of every color one can think of.

10 Jan