The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Wednesday’s Child: A Hopeful Sign

Were Plato alive today, and not in jail for extremism, I wonder what he and his cronies would be talking about in the boozer.  Socrates, certainly, would by then have suffered pretty much the same fate as he did, and the conversation – transcribed for posterity by some sympathetic soul on the Fleming Foundation – would lack some of its former brilliance, but still its likely drift intrigues me.

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No, Nikki, No

Nikki Haley promised she wouldn’t run for president against Donald Trump. She lied. She just sent a St. Valentine’s Day card to America: “I love you. XOXOXOXO. Elect me president and I will bomb numerous countries.”

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The Crisis is the Revolution

The censoring elites with their fact checkers on social media are not so much checking facts but sniffing for any opposing conceptual frameworks and filtering out anything that challenges the false worldview composed of false paradigms.

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The All-American Super Bowl by Web Duboyce

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Please do not allow your children to read this ill-natured and off-color post. The figures are not yet in, but if the predictions are correct, as many as 100 million people watched Super Bowl 2023.  It is very reassuring to learn that everything is back to normal.

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Bidenology: Parsing the State of the Union 2023

About 95% of any State of the Union Address is fluff and lies. So was Joe Biden’s last night. All the supposed economic progress he touted is belied by the inflation chewing up family budgets. The new infrastructure and other spending is just pork for favored legislators; such things ought to be built by state and local governments. 

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Wednesday’s Child: The Color of Pride

My mother, may God rest her soul, was the only one in the family who had learned to drive.  She once got a flat on the Major Deegan Expressway and recounted that motorists would whizz by the lady in evident distress without so much as a sidelong glance. The only ones who turned to look, she said, were black, and eventually one of them stopped to help her change the tire.