The real fighters for liberty are in Hong Kong, not with Antifa.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Russia/China Alliance
The dogmatic anti-Putin American press, spurred on by the Democratic Party for purely political reasons, is driving the Russians into the arms of the Chinese. Smart? I think not.
Because of the sham Russian-collusion charge against Trump, he is kind of hemmed in relative to initiating a more conciliatory approach to Russia, which could counter such an alliance so unfavorable to the US. But if he attempts that, that would tend to substantiate the allegation, so he won’t.
So the net result of all of this is that we face a much more formidable alliance now forming between democratic and Christian Russia (it does hold elections, and is no longer communist, by the way) and a totalitarian China — two very dissimilar countries whose only shared interest is the hostility of the US and therefore the menace of the US military.
This could have all been avoided.
We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
The Taliban didn’t attack us on 9/11. Neither did Saddam Hussein.
Lucuma
“The King”
The King on Netflix. Extraordinary movie. Especially the ending.
Value of Free Speech
Free speech — the value of negative and contrary thinking in testing one’s assumptions. When you don’t allow that, assumptions don’t get tested.
Hedy Lamarr
Will the real Hedy Lamarr please stand up.
Ann Coulter’s Sarcasm
Mayo Clinic
PBS and Ken Burns have a excellent documentary about the Mayo Clinic.
Elizabeth Warren
She’s just insane. Period. This from an article about Warren: Warren’s plan, first reported on by Fox News, is projected by the campaign to cost “just under $52 trillion” over the next decade, with the campaign proposing a host of tax increases to pay for it while still claiming the middle class would not face any additional burden.
Does anyone fall for this nonsense? That 53 trillion with a T. And of course it’s free if you are middle class.
The Democratic Party is a shadow of what it used to be. It has become a joke.
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