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“Frankenstein’s Body Politic” is about something I’ve been pondering for some time: that the two major parties have each in their own way been self-destructing these past few years. Except in contrast to my prognostication four years ago, the Republicans have avoided that fate (for now), while the Democratic Party is coming apart in drastic fashion.

An excerpt from the article:

Strangely, the bicentennial of the novel Frankenstein is witnessing a practical demonstration of Shelley’s tale of promethean horror. A mishmash assemblage, long on borrowed time, is ripping itself to shreds at the seams. We will never know what agonies might have erupted from the throat of Frankenstein’s creation as it struggled to rise. But of the vaster Democratic Party and its fellow travelers in media and entertainment, the death throes prevail across our screens. Those silicon bindings may not be enough to contain the rising lust for wrath.

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Visiting the Reagan Presidential Library over a year ago impressed upon me the Gipper’s charm and cordiality toward Gorbachev.  Yet Reagan was also fiercely resolute in his conviction that people desire to forge their own destinies.  It was the two Cold War leaders riding horses together as much as it was Reagan’s defiance at the Brandenburg Gate that ended the threat of communism in Europe.

It was a fine example of the “neo-noblesse oblige” that had been the template since World War II.  Countless perished in that conflict due in no small amount to the failure of “gentleman diplomacy” on the part of the upper crust.  But for its time, that was sanity.  And then a new sanity dawned with the rising of a false sun over Hiroshima.

Yet Ronald Reagan… was insane.  Or so we were told by pundits and academics.

Speaking of peace while drastically building up the ...

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The last time I wrote an op-ed for publishing other than on my own blog was more than ten years ago.  Certainly hasn’t been for lack of wanting to.  This is a kind of writing that I first attempted on the cusp of my senior year of high school and it’s a craft I devoted myself to developing further in college and beyond.  Then all of the general wackiness of the past decade transpired and that threw everything out of kilter.  Especially being able to engage all the gears required to really feel like I could be the writer that I needed to be to give this my very best.  And now, well… maybe this is an indication that the time for that has come at last.

American Thinker is a commentary site that I’ve come to appreciate and visit often, and I am very grateful that it has published
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So this is not only the first video blog post I’ve made in… well a VERY long time.  It’s also the absolutely FIRST blog post that I’ve made about now-President Donald Trump ever!


To be fair though, it’s not about Trump himself.  It’s about what I’ve seen waaaaay too much of in the way of hatred toward the guy.  It’s not warranted and it’s not worth it.  Anyhoo, roll the clip!

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Well, it’s more than a fair question. Yesterday I was reading how the Federal Reserve might soon be in need of a “bailout”. More than anything else I’ve heard in recent months, that raised a honkin’ big red flag. But then, I’ve been thinking for awhile now that conditions are ripe in this country for hyperinflation.

A good friend of mine, James S. Hodges – writer, Baptist minister, and all-around astute thinkin’ dude – published an essay today about the possibility of the United States going totally broke this year. And as with all such things, I’m compelled to lean y’all’s attention toward it…

Recently there have been disturbing reports on various news outlets about the rise of food and oil prices. Now the housing market also appears to be collapsing once again. The floods in Australia is said to affect the meat market due to cattle being lost

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Dear management and staff of WFMY:

I am a life-long viewer of WFMY. Yours is the station that I have most associated with well-produced television. Growing up our own television was always tuned to one of two channels: the local PBS affiliate for Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Channel 2. Until the time I was 8 years old I didn’t even know that there were other stations that did news, weather and sports. I will always fondly remember Lee Kindard’s hosting of The Good Morning Show, Sandra Hughes is one of the all-time most classiest ladies in the history of anything (Lord willing I will finally get a chance to meet her someday) and whenever the weather has taken a turn for the worst or (even better) threatened snow that would cancel the schools, WFMY was there. I still remember people like Arlo Lassen (whatever happened ...

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Last night while going through some older material on my hard drive, I found this Beetle Bailey cartoon from a few years ago. In it Mort Walker – through his character Plato – articulates one of the finest arguments about why socialism is not only a bad thing, but against human nature. And in light of what has transpired here in the United States during the past several days, I thought it would be quiet appropriate to post here…

Kinda sad really: when people like cartoonists show far more enlightenment and wisdom than those we elect to be entrusted with our government....

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Yeah the one with Charlton Heston, not the black and white silent original.

I don’t know what’s a sadder commentary: that a film this epic and majestic couldn’t be made today without computer-generated effects, that Ben-Hur would likely not even been greenlit for production by modern studios, or that current audiences would generally lack the attention span that those of fifty years ago possessed to really take in this kind of a movie.

I’ve thought for a long time that a film should be judged according to its own time. In its own way, Ben-Hur and movies like it are an excellent synopsis of the sort of people who both made these films, and who appreciated them most.

Sorta a psychological historical document, when you think about it....

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