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Knock on Wood

 by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Aug. 21, 2021) — The continuing cataclysm unfolding in Afghanistan gets worse with each passing day as somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 American citizens remain trapped in the country.  One, of course – let alone thousands –, would be too many.  As for the situation at the Kabul Hamid Karzai International […]

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The Clyburn Confession

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 This issue was addressed recently by your humble servant, but in the context of race-baiter Al Sharpton’s threat against both Senator Manchin as well as Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D. AZ.) to either “straighten-up-and-goose-step-right” or face being slandered as “supporting racism.” The rest of this post may make more sense if readers […]

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The Fight for the Filibuster

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021   (Mar. 18, 2021) — Lord Acton said it best, back in 1887: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The longer explanation of that observation is that as a person’s or organization’s power increases, their moral sense diminishes, sometimes incrementally, sometimes exponentially.  In more colloquial terms, this explains the modern variation on […]