The two phrases in quotation marks are ones I wish we would ban from public discourse. if your father, or grandfather, did time in prison, dies that make YOU a “convict”? Do not give me this ‘We’re all immigrants” bromide. Oh and, what about “They just want a better life”? Yeah, well, good luck and … Continue reading No, We Are NOT a “nation of immigrants”, and coming here for “a better life” is Shadow-chasing!
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Is Obama’s intended course of action in Syria constitutional – really?
Simon Templar September 9, 2013 R> Yesterday I watched Sec. State Kerry repeatedly tell members of the Senate that the President has the constitutional authority to take military action against Syria without congressional authorization. There may have been other Senators who said it also, but I only heard Rand Paul disagree with Kerry’s assertion. The Constitution … Continue reading Is Obama’s intended course of action in Syria constitutional – really?
E-Mask-ulated
Original OP published 3 December 2020: Browsing American Thinker this morning, as is my wont , I clicked on the link to New England Journal of Medicine wherein they concluded that, even in a hospital setting, universal masking is largely “talismanic”. But it now appears with a banner disclaimer at the top to the effect … Continue reading E-Mask-ulated
Lee Hazlewood – Cold Hard Times
Plan Mexico: In Honor of the Fallen AKA Winning the Peace
In case you have forgotten, I have written 9 or 10 OPs entitled “Winning the Peace.” D'Nanda, God bless her, has boiled all of them down to the following: As I may have said in this space once or twice, since the end of World War II, our nation’s military has won almost all the … Continue reading Plan Mexico: In Honor of the Fallen AKA Winning the Peace
Linking to an article about our Brown Water Navy in Viet Nam
Thanks Nanda for finding this.
Am I now,or have I ever been, a feminist?
When I was first in practice, I had to do an arbitration (which means try a case; in Pa, all cases under a certain monetary amount are subject to “compulsory arbitration” by a panel of three lawyers) in a neighboring county where I wasn’t admitted to the bar. A woman who practiced there, whom I … Continue reading Am I now,or have I ever been, a feminist?
Martha Stewart a swimsuit model at age 81!
People don’t want older women to look good. Decent, yes, modestly well kept up, yes, but not…y’know, good. It’s an incest taboo thing. Once upon a time, grandmother (the grandmother of us all) got tired of looking like a crone, so she went down to the river and shed her old skin, like a snake. … Continue reading Martha Stewart a swimsuit model at age 81!
LtCol S.X. McTemplar in Okinawa
Back in the day, our own LtCol S.X. McTemplar was the Camp Commander of one of the Marine Camps in Okinawa-in other words, he was pretty high up. One day, one of his higher ups-"an old, grizzled Marine" as the LtCol describes him, called a planning conference. This higher up explained that Marines were going … Continue reading LtCol S.X. McTemplar in Okinawa

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