Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
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(Reprinted from several sources. BE 11/13/16) POLITICS BY AMY MORENO NOVEMBER 12, 2016 The New York Times, along with the rest of the North Korea-style propaganda media, made a mockery of journalism by shamelessly shilling for Hillary Clinton. Now that she has lost, the media is terrified that they’re doomed (they are) and are issuing apologies…
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Because at this moment in American history we need a pugnacious street fighter from Queens. Wealthy, beholden to no one and loved by very few, who better to drain the swamp and bury the bad old days than Donald Trump? Ross Perot famously said during the 1992 presidential campaign, “That giant sucking sound is the…
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Something raw and unpolished is loose in the land. More than anger, it is emanating from a precinct seldom examined by the pollsters and the press. It is the perceived loss of freedom at the hands of a smothering big government. We are beset by a vast collection of rules, restrictions, blandishments and recriminations which,…
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For many days and weeks now, those who pine for the good old days when elections were roughly fair and bloodless have been heartsick at the prospect of a Constitutional crisis beginning on election day and continuing for who knows how long. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some honest authority would take charge? Wouldn’t it…
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” — Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 13, 1787 I think the next ten days will be the most important ten days in American history. As we move toward the general election, keep in mind that never, no never, has…
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The recent roughhousing over Britain’s vote to leave the European Union can be traced to one simple example of bureaucratic overreach: Some weeks before the vote, Brits were informed that due to climate change concerns (or something,) the ubiquitous electric tea pot was no longer efficient enough to be allowed to be sold anywhere in…
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[This profile of Al Perry appeared in the December 2015 issue of Central California Life Magazine. It seems appropriate to present it again as the 12th Honor Flight visits Washington, DC with a contingent of 70 military veterans and their chaperones October 24-26. This will be Al Perry’s final flight. -BE] “I’ve got 63 World…
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I spent the last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A class reunion, a big one. More on that in the future. But, this is more important. A woman who has had many years to know herself and distill her views gave this to me. It’s been around the internet a time or two,…
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What a fool. On a day that could have pretty much blown Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions out of the water, Donald Trump managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Leaked emails and transcripts detailing Clinton’s private big money speeches to Wall Street moguls showed her to be a two-faced, deceitful manipulator who…
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