Category: Fleming

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Some January Birthdays

A 19 minute podcast on the birthdays of Captain John Smith, Paul Revere, Zora Neale Hurston, Joan of Arc, Jesse Presley (the good twin), J.R.R. Tolkien, Karl Čapek, Frank James, Theodosius I, Bob Denver, Richard Nixon, Robert Stack, Ray Price, …. and David Bowie..

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A Time to Kill? Part One of Three

President Trump’s decision to kill General Soleimani has stirred up the predictable opposition.  For Nancy Pelosi and her party, Trump had to be condemned either for making an inadequate response to Iranian terrorist aggression against the United States or for a response she has decided, on her own authority, to declare a war crime. 

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Thanks, Donald.

As an anti-interventionist who has opposed all US involvement in wars since WW II and nearly all our military interventions, I send congratulations to the President for taking direct action against a pirate-state that has more than once attacked American diplomatic personnel.

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Pope Francis Finally Gets Something Right

How many times have we heard, at least since the end of the 1950’s, that young people will not return to the Church nor vocations increase until we make everything groovy?  And now that they have made everything too groovy for words, with leftist policies on immigration, pop music and pop liturgies, a moral theology so thin it would constitute indecent exposure on a nude beach, what then?

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Is Trump Impeached Or Not?

Perhaps, “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”  That, at least, would be one answer the Democrats might give. More obviously, it also depends upon the meaning of “impeach.”

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Little Boxes of the Mind, Part One of Two

I do not blame the students. The fault lies almost entirely with their parents and with their teachers. Entire university departments are now populated exclusively by trained monkeys who specialize in critical theory or sociology or marketing and know absolutely nothing worth knowing.

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Our Saudi Friends and Allies

Why are Americans getting so ticked about a Saudi or two acting up in Pensacola.  They are our good allies and buddies, right?  Saudi businessmen were pals of the Bushes, and who really cares if members of the royal family and other Saudi billionaires  are funding Jihadi schools in America?  After all, they’ve been paying good money to both parties in Congress.  Besides, there’s money to be made.  It’s oil, man, oil.  Either get with the plan and pick up the crumbs under the Bushes (and the rest of the GOP’s table) or go off and sulk and kiss your...