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Flattery always enthusiastically embraced
When I was researching the book, I ran across a really interesting military historian named Fred Borch. I cited some of his work in “Something Like Treason.” Now I’m ready to do something modest like worship at his feet because…
The Approaching Climax of “Something Like Treason”
Waiting for Something Like Treason: Disloyal American Soldiers and the Plot to be World War II Home is something like waiting for any climax. Some nail-biting, some managing of expectations, some resolve to just be cool, then repeat. My publisher…
The Immortal Case Against Social Programs
90 years on, evergreen objections & evergreen coup talk: People who are against social programs have grandchildren who are against social programs. Today’s arguments against big spending on infrastructure and social needs are the very same as the objections
How to get a microchip into your vaccine
Should you want to install a microchip in your Pfizer (shaken, not stirred) and become a puppet of the Illuminati for the rest of your life, don’t use the needle healthcare professionals are using to administer the vaccine. It’s the…
Why Are We So Politically Gullible?
A Sticky Trump Addiction. Won’t You Please Help? I’m as politically gullible as the next guy. But I’m also part of a medically underserved population struggling to cure itself of a Trump addiction. It takes over our lives and
Another Stab at Normal Politics
Does anyone remember what they are? America is taking another stab at returning to whatever political normalcy is and making us one nation indivisible again. But after overwhelming tragedy, and four years of making America great and domestic terrorism…
A Short Complaint About Normalcy
A Short Complaint About Normalcy “Normalcy” has become an accepted word again. I used to do spit takes whenever I heard it, which did no good and led to serious dehydration issues. Everybody uses it anyway and seems to have…
The Disloyal Misfits Camped Next To The 10th Mountain Division
And a new generation of literally cold warriors It’s less bizarre this time, but the Army is buying “skis, snowshoes, large tents and other equipment to train troops on cold-weather survival” again. This time it doesn’t have to share a…
Chaplain Arrested by Military Police
The Army Times called it “in a perfect encapsulation of 21st century life on Kuwait’s Camp Buehring, a Pennsylvania Army National Guard chaplain was handcuffed and hauled off by military police.”