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St. Matthew, the tax collector. Source . I remember Walter Mondale's acceptance speech as the Democratic party candidate to challenge U...

Sarah and James Polk; Donald Trump Sources: left , right . He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. —Congressman Abraha...

Detail from Japanese Pearl Harbor attack plan. Source . First, a few words about our latest war. When I heard the first news bulletins about...

Back when I was first interested in Russia and the Soviet Union, in my mid-teens, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a new twist on Marxist ...

Source .   The commemorative voyage of the sloop Restauration from Stavanger, Norway, to New York City, ended today, with its docking at ...

Source .   Source .   Two writers in two countries, published 64 years apart.... Lamorna Ash . Sometimes, as I sat in the outer ring ...

Source: found on threads.net , credited to AFP on this BBC page . It has been a bit more than twelve years since the late Pope Francis beg...

Last week , I proposed "under occupation" as a way of absorbing what the new Trump regime was imposing on us, and considering how...

Aurlandsfjord in July. As usual, in this last post of the year, I've picked out twelve blog posts from this past year as a sampling of...