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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Jefferson Davis Was Not Tried for Treason: America still suffers from that decision

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  The following is the beginning of a long article in the New Yorker magazine on December 4, 2023.  If you want to read more, send me an ema...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Top Blog Posts of 2023: Meeting Friends and Perennial Favorites

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  In 2023, various stories from my blog were opened more than 20,000 times. The two most popular with more than 1,500 reads each were the st...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Books of 2023, Part 2

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Part Two of my 2023 update begins with fiction and a book recommended by my daughter Lauren; Anxious People   by Fredrik Backman. This book ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Books of 2023, Part 1

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With just two weeks before the year ends, I should finish my usual fifty books in 52 weeks. I am currently at 47, but very close to the end ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Eternal Hell Does Not Exist: Says David Bentley Hart and I Agree

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  In the book That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell and Eternal Salvation,  the Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart asserts that there is...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Henry Kissenger and The Nazi Pope: Long Lives Addicted to Power

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Two terrible twins in my mind and probably no one else's are Henry Kissenger and Pope Pius XII, the pope who bowed to the Nazis to prese...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Austria 1938--The Sudden Betrayal

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  In September I walked through this square in the center of Vienna where Hitler spoke from a balcony announcing the Anschluss   (joining) o...