ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY… (…and it’s not just against external threats) A rather disturbing item showed up in our mailbox the other day. It was a particularly partisan political solicitation for support couched in very extreme terms.
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NO ONE SEEMS TO BE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS… (…whenever police resort to deadly force…) Every time a police officer in this country ends up shooting someone…whether black, hispanic, or white…and regardless of that officer’s racial or ethnic identity as
VETERANS DAY…IS BECOMING A NATIONAL NON-OBSERVANCE… (…because it’s just too damned inconvenient…) Like many of our other traditions, Veterans Day, is becoming a national non-observance… because it’s just too damned inconvenient…especially if it falls in the middle of the work