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Happy New Year!

     Have a Happy, and safe, New Year!      Enjoy a tasty beverage (or ten)!

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     Just doing a little end-of-year cleaning out the Blogroll by removing defunct blogs. Four blogs that were listed in the sidebar is now pining for the fjords, and no longer exist. If it is your blog or if it has … Continue reading

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Happy Thanksgiving for 2025!

     The modern Thanksgiving, as a truly national holiday, and for that we have the abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale to thank for not only making Thanksgiving a truly national holiday after the Civil War, but for popularizing the inclusion of cranberries … Continue reading

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The One Piece Revolts

     Protests, riots, uprisings, and even revolutions are nothing new. However, a spate of such occurrences have recently erupted throughout the world on the majority of continents. These have two things in common. The first is that involves, quite heavily, protesters … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween! (2025)

     Here is the silent classic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1920.

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The Aberration And Lies Of Nostalgia

     Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.   For some people, the present is an exercise, not in what is good, but what detracts therefrom. The future is forever descending doom. No wonder, then, why so many want to look … Continue reading

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Magna Carta And The Birth Of The Rule Of Law

     The original Magna Carta, signed by the Barons and King John at Runnymede, celebrated it’s 800th birthday ten years ago. Along with the Charter of the Forest, they became the foundational documents of the Anglosphere and of American reverence for … Continue reading

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Redefining Terms And Natural Law

     Many a year a go, an intelligent and well read Catholic school teacher, who was politically Left-wing, said to me that “Social Justice” meant no more than the concepts that Thomas Aquinas discussed and anyone who had a problem with … Continue reading

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Wokeness vs. Classical Liberalism

     Liberals, Communists, and Woke totalitarians are often lumped together. But there are differences between Wokeness and Classical Liberalism, particularly when it comes to “systems of oppression” and the “false consiousness” that purportedly protects it which can only be overthrown through … Continue reading

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     Due to being abnormally busy over the next two weekends, there will be no “News of the Week” this upcoming Sunday or the Sunday thereafter.  Posting will otherwise be light.

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