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-Benjamin Franklin
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Joe Biden Wasn’t Wrong
I’ve seen comments that the Kremlin showed that Biden would trade a Russian gun-runner for an American pothead and leave a decorated Marine stuck in the gulag. There’s a bit of truth to the accusation – Viktor Bout seems to have earned his title “Merchant of Death.” Surface to air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades are Read more
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Did this all start with Jefferson?
Plato thought that political leadership should be the place for the best and the brightest. Thomas Jefferson was the second US Vice-President . . . but it was a different job back then. The candidate with the most votes got the presidency, the runner-up became vice-president. Obviously, they didn’t run on the same platform, or Read more
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The Part that Breaks
It seems like everything has at least one component notorious for being the thing that breaks (first). Often, that thing is a safety switch. Sometimes, it’s something like a shear bolt that’s actually supposed to break. Sometimes it’s simply the most complex piece or the one that works the hardest. The first category of “things Read more
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The Nockian Society
It’s been most of my adult lifetime since I first encountered the writings of Albert J. Nock. Back in 1976, his work was mentioned in F. Paul Wilson’s SciFi book An Enemy of the State. I have an idea that it is a lot easier to beat the state in Science Fiction than in the Read more
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Filling out the Census of Agriculture
I suppose it’s only fair that as an old retired guy I fill out the Census of Agriculture. For at least 25 years I’ve had times when I was paid to get information out of the Ag Census – so a little bit of payback seems just. The first time I got the message “Everyone Read more
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The India Factor in the Civil War
I’ve often heard speculation on how the South could have won the Civil War. Usually the proposition was that had one battle or another turned out differently, a tactical win could have led to a Confederate victory. The Union officer who put things at risk was Captain Charles Wilkes of the USS San Jacinto. The Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 