While other families traveled, partied and picnicked, our Memorial Day Weekend was taken up almost entirely by a lacrosse tournament, and I was reminded once again of the inverse relationship between parents who are...
(Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.) In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, deported to West Germany, and had his Soviet citizenship stripped. Apparently,...
Nothing in the President’s speech hasn’t been said before, and with much more force and a greater sense of commitment. His sprawling meditation on the threat of terrorism was less a grand vision for...
The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial lies at a curve in the Moselle River as it winds through the Vosges Mountains. Epinal is the final resting place of 5,255 American military dead, most of...
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on Tariffs Making China Great AgainI'm going to petition the US government to fix my _huge_ trade deficit with the local Walmart by hav… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationAnd here we go with the constitutional crisis: A Federal judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump adm…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25From the article: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in response to Xinis’ ruling that the judge… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The governments argument was that he was a dangerous criminal and gang member and not coming back un… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationWe do not have a lot of chaos in this. We have court system that functions, and we have whatever Tru…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25As I've said before, my working assumption is that the goal is the North American Empire under Donal… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't this the case where the DOJ's argument is "Neither we nor the Salvadorans can find him"? With…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25There was no tariff plan you would have been okay with. Hell, I doubt there is much of anything Pres…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/el-salvador-deportation-ruling-trump-administration-0027287…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25You're telling me 2 months of ciphering isn't enough time to negotiate something that might crater t…
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