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  • The Tax Man Cometh

    The Tax Man Cometh12

    Here I am, an old guy, whose social security check won’t cover the rent of his home—much less living expenses. Because I was self-employed most of my life and unwise in my financial planning, I have no retirement account. Therefore, I keep working, most recently as a freelance writer. Come April, the federal and state

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  • The Taste of Strawberries: Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good

    The Taste of Strawberries: Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good0

    Near the end of The Return of the King movie, while Frodo and Sam are making the arduous climb up Mount Doom to destroy the ring once and for all, their strength fails and they stop climbing. Sam claws himself over to Frodo, takes him in his arms, and asks him this poignant question: Do you remember

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  • The Tarantino-like End of Richard the Lionheart

    The Tarantino-like End of Richard the Lionheart0

    I admit it. I still picture Richard the Lionheart as the handsome, smirking, fellow Sean Connery depicted in the Robin Hood movie that came out in 1991. I do this even though I know that Richard I was not that fellow.   Lionized for centuries, modern historians have treated Richard’s legacy less kindly than their

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  • The Taliban May Have Provided a Sputnik Moment for Wokeness

    The Taliban May Have Provided a Sputnik Moment for Wokeness0

    In 1957, the supposedly backward Soviet Union launched a satellite into orbit and the threat of Soviet rockets became real for millions of Americans. Fortunately, the Sputnik moment galvanized a massive American response and we soon caught up and overtook the Soviets. Conceivably, the current collapse of our Afghanistan adventure might be a similar “Sputnik

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  • The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt

    The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt0

    • April 1, 2019

    The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. Now that Robert Mueller’s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the original goal of its mandate—evidence of

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  • The Systemic Racism Argument Ignores Free Will

    The Systemic Racism Argument Ignores Free Will0

    In college I took a course on debating and argument. Well, to say I took the course may be a stretch; I dropped it after a few days after pushing back against the politics of my classmates and receiving this assertion from my instructor in response: “Institutional racism is a fact whether or not I

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