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Cry, the beloved country.

Among the many things I have come to despise our tea swilling, Galtian, Trump-humping, overlords for, is how they have ruined any celebration of national pride. Turning the American flag into a...

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The grieving process is continuing….and the only proper response to our Red...

It has been well over 7 weeks since I have had the will to put my hand to keyboard and write anything of significance. Sure, I’ve been attacking the usual idiots on Twitter and also been observing the...

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The overall strategic situation has not changed. And tactical setbacks should...

The amount of intellectual dishonesty by suregeaholics and others is disturbing, to say the least. And the tragic events that occurred on Thursday morning are sad and will be so for a long time....

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Will the Navy learn the lessons it needs to?

Despite all the blowback from folks in certain circles and the continued whining of the surgeaholics, I remain firm in my conviction that getting the hell out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do....

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20 years.

Over the past 10 years, I have increasingly come to dread the arrival of September 11th. It is the day the United States will remember a terrible criminal act in its history. 2977 people died that day...

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The great resignation is not what the oligarchs think it is.

One of the things that led me away from the Republican party forever was its descent into madness – punctuated by a fiendish adaptation of cruelty and selfishness. What I could not abide, as one who...

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The paradox of low expectations.

I spent yesterday working on the site after we experienced a Denial of Service attack on Wednesday and Thursday. I’ve pretty well isolated where I think it came from and have taken proactive steps...

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Happy Boxing Day!

When I lived in Europe and had a British TV service ( which had far better programming than my American counterpart), I enjoyed the day after Christmas. In Britain and many parts of the Commonwealth,...

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a festive holiday season, well, at least as joyful as one could be in the shadow of the continuing disaster that is COVID and the unacceptable US response to...

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A rage worth having and expressing.

It certainly has been an unexpected first three months of the year so far. A senseless war in Ukraine with conservatives cheering on the wrong side for a great while, rising gas prices – while...

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