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A Ready Back Pocket Response

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Any attempt to discuss the present political side of our existence almost guarantees being sucked into the likes of a boxing ring with no referee to keep order. Few if any of the arguments even begin to make sense. Every attempt to reveal the truth is scorned or ignored.

At the same time, logic nearly always gets thrown out the window. Any decorum followed at the beginning is soon either lost or trampled by those who insist that on all counts they are unquestionably correct.

Nothing or no one is immune, not even if someone is successful in steering the … Read the rest “A Ready Back Pocket Response”

Night War

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It was happening again. I’m deep in sleep when the words begin coming into my brain from somewhere, an account, a news story, with names, places, and events. Yet, I later find no evidence that any of it is true. Even more puzzling, nothing seems to have caused it.

Eventually, it wakes me up, yet the words keep coming. Not until they stop do I get up and write what’s been revealed:

Colonel Frank Young, a U.S. Air Force officer stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan, had just picked up his staff vehicle from the repair depot. He was driving through the … Read the rest “Night War”