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Biden’s Immediate Agenda Items

Quote of the week: “It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are…

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Adieu, Open Skies?

Lyric of the week: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky” — Jimi Hendrix Quote of the week: “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of…

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Biden’s Treaty Quandary

Quote of the week: “Trumpism is, at heart, not a philosophy but an enemies list.” – Kevin D. Williamson Lyric of the week: “I wish I was a fisherman Tumblin’ on the seas Far away from dry land And it’s…

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Fanfare for the Common Man

Lyric of the week: “You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes You just might find, well, You get what you need” — The Rolling Stones Exhale and enjoy. Breathe in deeply. Notice that which can…

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Paul Warnke

Definition of the week: depraved indifference (legal definition): when a person has an utter disregard for the value of human life – not because he or she means to cause grievous harm, but because he or she simply does not care.…

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The 2020 North Korean Military Parade

On 10/10/2020, the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Worker’s Party of Korea, the DPRK showed of a lot of missiles. Again. In addition to all the stuff they’ve been testing over the last two years, they introduced a new,…

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Putin Votes for Trump

Quotes of the week: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” ― Walter Scott, Marmion ““Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” The Wizard of Oz Vladimir Putin has joined tens of millions…