2020 election

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The Diminishing Power of the Media, Part I

vassar - May 19, 2019 5

Keep this simple set of facts in mind when the subject of the strength of the Democratic Party base comes up. And keep a constant visual of this map in your head when the subject...

The New Frontier

vassar - May 5, 2019 1

The album was entitled #16, (1963) and inspired by none other than John F Kennedy, a Democrat. Go Figure It was the last album of theirs I ever bought. I wonder if the words will work today? https://youtu.be/xw2_5pqMGYw

The Promise of Socialism in a Single Song

vassar - April 30, 2019 1

says it all. https://youtu.be/2Vjfw7UHl_E We've been blessed to be able to watch this promise proved before jumping in head first I have no doubt that Democratic Socialism, when it emerged as the dominant political arrangement in Europe...

Dealing with the Separate Reality of the Left

vassar - April 25, 2019 1

Over Easter weekend my wife and I watched a half-dozen Easter and Passover-themed films. Among them was the 1968 film "Shoes of the Fisherman" which actually laid out the then-current state of liberalism in Hollywood. The Catholic Church, played...

First Principles about America; First Questions

vassar - April 21, 2019 2

Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design? I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...

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Sad Mamas

vassar - February 9, 2023

Postscript I watched a gathering of parents and children at my YMCA gym for their weekly 2-hour session teaching young 5-6 year olds how to handle and shoot a basketball. About 20 kids, all races, each with a parent, mom or dad standing behind them,...

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.