American Exceptionalism

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Word-Pictures of What Nazis Pretending to be Civilized Look and Sound Like

vassar - August 1, 2022 0

"The Stranger" was a 1946 post-war film noir vehicle about a Nazi SS mass murderer who had escaped to America, and of course, the War Crimes Commission was looking for him. Orson Welles directed...

Millennials Who can Save America

vassar - July 9, 2022 0

My sons were in college and I was in the old USSR studying Soviet ways when Millennials were born. (The early 1990s.) Personally I know very little about them, except by observing them during...

“Simpatico”, Why America Still Needs New Blood : A White Paper

vassar - June 13, 2022 0

Old Blood versus New New Blood Michael Corbin is a Republican who's in a runoff with Mark Gonsalves on June 21 for the GA-7 Republican slot to face off against Democrat Lucy McBath. Being a...

Ben Shapiro and the Simpsons

vassar - May 20, 2022 0

Updating a May, 2016 essay I wrote about the millennial "Saving Ben Shapiro" I can unequivocally pronounce him "found"! I thought he was perilously close to becoming lost due to the major rot of...

(Updated from a post I made at RedState.com in 2010. Looks better here, without commercial interruption.) A law student takes his date, a med student, to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner. In the course of conversation,...

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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.