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Interesting . . . .

| February 10, 2015 | 10 Comments
Interesting . . . .

Fox News’ psychiatrist and columnist Dr. Keith Ablow has written an interesting article today. If you’re interested, you can read it here. Yeah, it’s about Brian Williams and his apparent very public “liberties” with the truth. But I’ll be damned if I didn’t think of a few others we all “know and love” when I […]

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Yeah, This IS Getting Interesting

| November 28, 2014 | 15 Comments
Yeah, This IS Getting Interesting

Remember that IRS scandal? You know, where the IRS was blatantly playing politics with nonprofit group applications for tax-exempt status – slow-rolling those from conservative groups, and fast-tracking those from liberal groups? Remember how that was supposed to be “IRS only”, with no involvement from the White House? Well, in response to a suit filed […]

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Well, Well, Well . . .

| November 18, 2014 | 12 Comments
Well, Well, Well . . .

The irony here is indeed delicious. US group CAIR named terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates The linked story is worth reading. This shouldn’t really be a surprise, though.  In 2007, CAIR was named (along with a sh!tload of others) as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to funnel money to Hamas.  They’ve also long […]

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Well, There He Goes Again . . . .

| November 17, 2014 | 3 Comments
Well, There He Goes Again . . . .

Remember the POTUS Twitter account scandal? You know, where nearly 53% of the followers of the Twitter account belonging to the POTUS were determined to be something other than real people – e.g., artificial entities there for no other reason than to puff up the numbers and create an “echo chamber” to make it appear […]

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“Previews of Coming Attractions”

| October 10, 2014 | 73 Comments
“Previews of Coming Attractions”

People wonder just how bad the Ebola outbreak could get. Well, with a bit of understanding of the relevant mechanisms, knowledge of the math involved, and a spreadsheet, putting together a “quick and dirty” approximate model for the spread of that disease is relatively easy. What it shows may be somewhat hard to swallow. And […]

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Talk About Bad Timing

| October 6, 2014 | 9 Comments
Talk About Bad Timing

Headline from the cover of the issue of Dallas Weekly magazine released on 25 September:  “Taste of Africa Comes to Dallas” Seriously. Yeah, the timing on that one . . . kinda sucks.  They obviously didn’t have a working crystal ball.

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Fifty Years Ago Yesterday

| August 11, 2014 | 8 Comments
Fifty Years Ago Yesterday

On 10 August 1964, Public Law 88-408 was signed by the POTUS, and became effective. It’s better known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. That resolution was described by then-Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach as “the functional equivalent of a declaration of war.” The resolution was passed by Congress at the request of the […]

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Where do we get such men?

Where do we get such men?

I spoke with Soldier who not long ago completed his second tour in Afghanistan.   I knew him as a teenager who was unsure what direction to take his life. I know him as a man for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration.  I have seen first hand the growth and the pain […]

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