The Jefferson-Hamilton Handshake, Can the GOP be Saved
(Updated from 2010, when Obama-the-idea was still new.)
The Hook
The GOP establishment has always kept one foot in the water bucket during a thunderstorm; never fixing that hole in the roof, because, when it’s raining,...
The Hanging of Jake Spoon, a Cautionary Tale for Trump Haters and Democrats in...
(I first wrote this in 2010, as notice to Democrats that they were running with outlaws, and certain laws apply when they do do that. Well, today, six years later, the Democrats, God bless 'em,...
Slavery, Like Racism, is also in the Eyes of the Beholder
This was mentioned in a different context a few days ago, but today, President Trump flew to Jamestown, VA today to make comments at the 400th Anniversary of the First Legislative Assembly in North...
Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History
This is only an opinion.
There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one.
But there is enough circumstantial evidence to...
UPDATED: Oswald Bates TOP 15 List of Gibberish for 2020
Cliffs Note Intellectualism, n.; The exercise or application of the intellect as taken from crib sheets, scribbled notes on the back of the hand, or from looking over a smart student’s shoulder during a...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...