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With all the talk about toppling statues and defacing monuments and memorials, it is time to start thinking about the new ones which should be erected. Typically, wartime leaders build just such markers to their greatness and their triumphs. Our wartime thinks he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. However that possibility does not seem […]
A Question That Won’t Go Away: Why Does Trump Love Putin So Much? Following the news that Russia put a bounty on US troops, this old puzzle takes on new significance. David Corn (June 29, 2020) What does Putin’s Pence get from his relationship with Vladimir Putin? Everything is transactional. It’s all about the deal. […]
Hamilton, the musical is back. In some ways it never really went away. It continued to be performed to standing-room crowds throughout the land and globally (pre-Covid). Its curriculum courtesy of Gilder Lehrman is part of many schools. It remains a blockbuster. Now it is available in your very home and for a nominal price, […]
One day there will be a story told of how the United States degenerated from a City on a Hill in the 1980s to the Trumphole country it has become today. It is a sad story of decline where the resolution is not yet known and the restoration has not yet begun. Whether or not […]
The opening sentence in the article is: “President’s niece describes him in a much-awaited tell-all-book as a child in an adult’s body… The President is still a child! For months if not years, I have been saying that Little Donnee Waney is a child. For months if not years I have been saying that he […]
To topple or not to topple, that is the question. Statues have become the latest battleground in America’s Third Civil War. At this point, it is impossible to determine which statue will be our Fort Sumter. It is reasonable to assume that just as one could not predict that it would the George Floyd murder […]
A stunning archaeological discovery sheds new light on the life and times of the great ancient Egyptian builder and his modern counterpart. This unexpected and vividly-colored treasure shows Ramses II smiting the coronavirus. He is depicted in the traditional Egyptian pose for defeating the forces of chaos that threatened the stability and order of the […]
Even without the coronavirus, the United States should not be celebrating July4th as its birthday according to The New York Times. In its Pulitzer-Prize winning Sunday Magazine issue entitled “1619” (August 18, 2019), The New York Times asks us to accept 1619 as the true birth year of the United States and not 1776 (see […]
Note: I decided last week to write this blog this week. In so doing I gambled that there would be more of the same in the news but nothing drastic like the revelation of the Russian bounty on American soldiers and no American response. You never really know what to expect except that it will […]
Fox triplets, do you want a “socialist” America? Then DUMP TRUMP NOW! It’s time to live in the real world. No more Tucker tirades about the unelected Fauci. It’s time to live in the real world. DUMP TRUMP NOW! No more Hannity hosannas about Texas and Florida. It’s time to live in the real world. […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
