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Liberals have howled at what they consider the unconscionable razing of USAID and the end to limitless American foreign assistance. The Edi

Millions of deaths? Hardly. A shutdown of foreign assistance and closed borders will force entrenched autocrats to change and encourage popular revolt.

#politics #foreign aid #africa #usaid

It is hard to envisage any world but our own; impossible to imagine a future where what matters now, does not matter, where religion is simp

The genie is out of the bottle and no putting him back. Those with the intelligence to imagine a future with few familiar road signs welcome the new world. Worriers will never see beyond the confining canons of political belief

#social commentary #politics #progressives #ai #virtual reality

'Monkey meat', said Richardson Allen, longtime traveler to the heart of darkness, he called it, Africa, home to Lucy, the first homo sapien

MONKEY MEAT AND EBOLA Vx421, THE BIG ONE - PANIC AND HYSTERIA FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS 'Monkey meat', said Richardson Allen, longtime traveler to the heart of darkness, Africa, home to Lucy, the first homo sapiens, and the source of most of the world's problems.

#social commentary #africa #ebola #world bank

Alicia Kent lived through the Hong Kong flu of 1968 although she was unable to get out of bed for a week, was unable to walk more than two b

So Fauci should be clapped in irons but will probably escape punishment, the whole smarmy truth of the COVID episode will never come out, and Americans will just have to suffer the long-term consequences of official arrogance and unlimited government power.

#social commentary #politics #anthony fauci #covid #government

Mrs. Linder's Dancing School, a relic of the now distant past, was the place for all proper, well-brought up children of New Brighton. On Mr

Comeuppance? Never. Anyone with such natural endowments, such indefinable but irresistible sexual power, could never fail. Artemis could no sooner end up like Janie Fisher than the sun never rising. Her fate was predetermined, inevitable, unstoppable and enviable.

#social commentary #progressives #sex #women #literature

Genghis Khan was a charismatic and fearsome figure. He and his armies were known for their cruelty and barbarity, and the sight of them adv

Wars are for winning, civilian populations are not collateral damage but complicit partners. The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima brought final, total victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Iran should be no different

#iran war #genghis khan #donald trump

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle asserts that certain pairs of physical properties cannot be measured precisely at the same time. If t

As such politics is a circus, an impossibly hilarious Borscht Belt comedy routine. If inarticulate hysteria is seen as par for the course, life can be worth the price of admission.

#social commentary #philosophy #heisenberg uncertainty principle

Chief Grey Wolf took a sip of his single malt and said to his longtime friend, Ed Swallowtail, 'Long knives, bad shots but generous to a fau

Grey Wolf hated to go back to northwestern Texas, his old stomping grounds. He hated to see old men selling turquoise trinkets on the roadside, billboards featuring teepees and beautiful squaws. He had a number of Frederick Remington paintings of Indians in his home. For a white man, Remington had captured the spirit of the plains Indians and painted them out of respect and admiration. The paintings were reminders of his storied past, and not a day went by without him stopping to look at them and remember. (PLEASE TYPE URL INTO BROWSER)

#social commentary #native american #white wolf

Athena Phillips was a graduate of Wellesley College, one of the Seven Sisters, a group of women's colleges on an academic par with the Ivy L

It is not a matter of principle, but a matter of fact - privilege has been an essential aspect of human society since its first settlements. Societies from the remote Amazon to Imperial Europe have been divided by ability and the influence which that confers.

#social commentary #yale university #privilege

Ed Tom Bell, sheriff in the film version of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men in an opening soliloquy says: The crime you see now, it

No country for old men indeed. Sheriff Ed Tom was right to be concerned that it was hard to take life's measure in changing times, and that his soul was at hazard. Few of us are there.

#social commentary #religion #literature #philosophy

'I'm past my sexual pull date', Cohen said to his internist who as a married late middle aged man with a young lover wanted nothing of it.

Cohen was in seventh heaven, saved from sexual exclusion by a simple farmgirl from Iowa, and awakened from marital torpor, energized and given new life. Thank God for Annette, he said not often enough.

#social commentary #love #sex #younger girlfriend

A hilarious skit on the Internet shows a white cracker in the foreground with a black man in the background. The white man says that he has

Hear the muezzin chanting the call to Islamic prayer? Not audible but there nonetheless. Sharia law in the United States? Never, but unless you pay attention, it is already here.

#social commentary #cancel culture #sharia law #censorship

Lorraine Anderson was born and grew up in northern Minnesota. Her grandparents were Norwegian immigrants who had settled in Minnesota in 19

There is such a thing as excellence and it should be valued and promoted. There are cultural values which are superior to others. Intelligence like everything else is subject to the bell curve. The time to favor the best and the brightest over the worst and the dimmest has arrived. People are not equal

#social commentary #genius #progressivism

Donald Trump didn't come out of nowhere as the American Left seems to assume - an alien being of vast intelligence and inimitable power with

Europeans shake their heads as they always have at American low-class excess, and the American Left goes apoplectic at Trump's use of power and authority; but both have ignored or at best overlooked his origins, his social and cultural inheritance.

#social commentary #american history #donald trump

Amanda Phillips was a simple woman of simple tastes and modest expectations. She had grown up in a small New England town, daughter of a ho

Love - usually the obfuscator of reality - was a cleansing agent, and gone were her former dreams of utopia She had been tamed as completely as Kate had been by Petruchio. The taming had not been enslavement but freedom.

#social commentary #politics #love #progressivism

S peaking with NPR's Steve Inskeep, comedian and political commentator Bill Maher noted how news organizations such as NPR were falling for

Trump plays the Left like a violin. He knows every note, every phrasing, every adagio and pianissimo. He knows that for all the things he is hated for, it is his bad taste that drives the Left mad.

#social commentary #politics #trump #progressives

Harper Lent was a longtime resident of Martha's Vineyard, once a whaling capital of New England and now the summer resort of the wealthy. T

Because he has invested so much in place, his Eden, the Vineyard, taking it way will tamper with his soul. He is too old to untether, and be free from the moorings which keep him in his confected, fictitious world.

#social commentary #culture #marthas vineyard

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