Category Archives: politics

The Scent Of Sand

May 4, 2024 – 9:44 am

In 1917 TE Lawrence of Arabia was led through a palace of an Arab prince. Six rooms were scented by fragrant incensed. The last was bare with a window opened to the wind. Lawrence asked the prince what was the scent. “The desert. It was here before us. It will always be here, even after […]

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The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee

April 11, 2024 – 9:19 am

The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee Professor Bertell Ollman In 2005, as a protest against Israel, Ollman wrote and published a Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People, stating: “Socialist and ex-Jew that I am, I guess I still have too much respect and love for the Jewish tradition I left behind to want the world […]

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The Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 – 2009

March 22, 2024 – 8:37 am

“Ich bin en Berliner.” These words were spoken by JFK before the grim barrier in 1961. I have stood at the wall in 1982. Its shabby concrete was graffiti-splattered on the Western side. The other side was a no-man’s land of mines, dogs, and guard towers. I had crossed over to East Berlin via Checkpoint […]

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White Men Redux

February 17, 2024 – 12:49 pm

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the civil equality to black ex-slaves and the GOP has promised to honor their privilege, but the Republicans remain true to the immortal words of Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, who explained why the party of Lincoln was short on blacks. “I’ll tell you what the coloreds want. It’s […]

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Kiss My Black Ass

February 1, 2024 – 7:36 pm

Election night 2008 had people celebrating in the streets. The desire for change had swept the GOP from the White House and Congress. The effects of Obama’s victory over the Old White Guy reached into the Deep South and this week the town of Alligator, Alabama ousted its white mayor in favor of a black […]

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