The “New” Republicans
The Republicans who voted to impeach Bill Clinton because he once lied about screwing around with an intern can’t be bothered to even consider impeaching a President who spouted lies about non-existent...
View ArticleRecluce Tales E-Promotion
Tor has just informed me that the e-book version of Recluce Tales will be sale at $2.99 for the entire month of February. For those who just want a peek at the world of Recluce or those on a budget in...
View ArticleGlue
The assault on the U.S. Capitol and all of the right-wing rhetoric about individual freedoms got me to thinking about some other related aspects of American culture. In the United States, there coexist...
View ArticleEthics, Expediency, or Cowardice?
In a secret ballot, the majority of the U.S. House Republican Caucus voted not to remove Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her position as House Republican Conference Chair, in effect supporting...
View ArticleThe Latest Lie
The latest Republican lie is that trying an impeached former president for offenses he committed while in office is unconstitutional. The vast majority of legal scholars who have opined on the subject...
View ArticleEmpty Respect
Republicans are always talking about law and order, and how they respect police officers and other law enforcement personnel. During the attempted Trump coup of January 6th, police officers put their...
View ArticleFailure to Convict?
The Republicans have tried to make an issue out of the idea that the country will be better off if former President Trump is NOT convicted of inciting the January 6th demonstration and riot that...
View ArticleL.E. Modesitt, Jr. Subreddit
For those of you who are interested, a fan has created an L.E. Modesitt, Jr. subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/LEModesittJr/ Just to be clear, while I occasionally browse Reddit, I do not...
View ArticlePower Trumps Ethics
Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, pleaded with Trump to call off the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol, and Trump essentially refused. Yet McCarthy opposed impeachment, as did most...
View ArticleWho’s Listening?
The other day, I happened to see on the satellite directory The American President, a favorite movie of mine, despite it’s being dated, its political inaccuracies, and its hokey ending. One of the...
View ArticleWhy Not Change?
A recent commenter on this blog made an observation along the lines that the Republican Party was dying, but that instead of changing, the GOP was rigging the system in an effort to disenfranchise...
View ArticlePublic Higher Education
Republicans used to believe in helping people help themselves, even if they underestimated the amount and type of help necessary. Now, it seems as though their message is that the government’s given...
View ArticleA Little Perspective, Please
Liberals tend to be very good at portraying the historical and current evils in our society, and they tend to focus on what hasn’t been accomplished, as opposed to what has. They’re also very good at...
View ArticleLearning, Knowledge, and Credentials
Sometime back, I wrote about some of the “innovations” proposed and since implemented by the local university, in order to create a three-year bachelor’s degree, a degree pushed by the state...
View ArticleThe Spoiled Media
The other day some pundit featured in the Washington Post complained that President Biden hadn’t held a single press conference since he took office, claiming that it had been almost a hundred years...
View ArticleA Particular Typo Problem
As several readers have noted, there were more typographical errors in Fairhaven Rising [which, if you haven’t picked it up, came out almost exactly a month ago], and, when I read those comments, I...
View ArticleMore Than Problematic
The other day I got a review of Fairhaven Rising by a reviewer for an online publication. The review panned the book. I don’t have a problem with that. Writers should expect that. We can’t please every...
View ArticleQuantum Shadows E-Book Promo
For the remainder of the month of March, the e-book version of Quantum Shadows is available at $2.99. So if you were waiting for a less expensive version of the book, this is your chance.
View ArticleA Secular Nation
Start with this point. I am not you. You are not me. We each have different thoughts, beliefs, and experiences. Most people understand that we all have different thoughts and experiences. Where people...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on War
There’s a doctrine in warfare known as proportional response. If one country seizes or destroys a ship of another country, the second country should respond on the same level, or perhaps escalate the...
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