This entry was initially intended to be a quick remark about Michael Moore once again inserting himself into the national conversation… Presuming that any of …
Patriot Dispatches
By an Angel’s Kiss, MSGT Jose Gonzalez, 35, and MSGT Luis Deleon, 31, Army (Afghanistan)
Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony MGST Jose J Gonzalez, 35, of La Puente, CA and …
Satan and Mark Twain, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
Late in life Mark Twain had to go on the road to raise money to pay his creditors because he’d invested poorly. In the process he probably invented …
America First
If you are a liberal this is code for racism and white supremacy… Or something. If you’re everyone else, America first simply means that our …
The More Things Change….
I ran into an interesting book of illustrations from 1942 by an artist named Constantin Ajalov, entitled Conversation Pieces. I did an art piece centered …
Famous Americans We Haven’t Met Yet
Do you know me? No one in Bulgaria does, either. His name was Raiko Daskalov, and he was a small-time labor organizer who died in 1923, …
Just Remember, “Patriot” Means other things to Other People
Just a reminder. This song was written in the 1950s by an Irishman named Behan, who had friends in the IRA. It was a much …
By An Angel’s Kiss, Gunnery SGT Scott Koppenhafer, 35, USMC (Iraq)
Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony Gunnery SGT Scott Koppenhafer, 35, of Mancos CO, was …
Maoism in America?
For years we’ve been steered toward the old Soviet Union as the model of Marxism to both admire and hate in America. In the process very little …
The Christian MAGA Prayer
I developed a habit of crossing myself when I first went to USSR in 1991. I’m not Catholic or Orthodox, but to spend two months …
