A BLACK FLAG OF CRIMINALITY IN A QUEST FOR POWER… (all under the guise of extreme religious purity) The ISIS plague continues with its rampages throughout the Middle East, and elsewhere, because the world community has failed to understand what

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IN A WORLD TURNING UPSIDE DOWN… (it may take a while to figure out which way is up…again) There’s a lot of angst, doom, and gloom, floating around this world of ours these days. Everything seems to be going to

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THE NFL’S FAT-CATS PREPARE TO DO ANOTHER BIT OF MUSICAL CHAIRS (…a billion here…a billion there…never mind the sport…it’s all about market share…) The billionaires that make up the NFL’s franchise-owners club are set to meet soon in Chicago. Apparently

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A LION RELATED ITEM FROM OUR ARCHIVES… (…about those who seem to think lion meat…has an exotic edible index) In our recent issue about “sport” hunting for big game in Africa, and the death of Cecil, a protected lion in

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RELEASED FROM THE DEPTHS OF A DEEP BLUE SEA… (…a small fragment may help resolve the mystery of a missing airliner) Eighteen months ago Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously veered 180 degrees from its planned flight path to Beijing, China,

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THE G.O.P. DEBATES… (…a Fox News knock-off version of Amsterdam’s…Reeperdam) This televised event reportedly set viewership records for the number of folks who tuned in to watch it…no doubt giving the sponsors of it a very gratifying – ka-ching –

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WE COULD APPLY A ROMAN PENALTY TO PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY… (by just feeding them…to those lions) I was given my very first firearm on my 12th birthday. It was a sleek Winchester bolt action, single shot .22 rifle. But before

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THEY’RE NOT AT STARSHIP AMENITIES LEVELS…YET (but honeymooning in space may not be too far off…) Despite some recent spectacularly explosive failures commercial space ventures have received official sanction and license to proceed with their efforts to further develop the

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TURKEY IS NOW FORCED TO WALK THE LINE… (…as that hydra-headed wildfire of conflicts closes in on its borders….) After almost five years of sitting on the sidelines in its attempts to avoid getting sucked into the vortex of the

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THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER… (…and there ain’t much of anything new to yak about…) Pick up any newspaper, magazine, or watch what passes for “news” on TV, and it seems that this is the time of year when the

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