Unreconstructed Italian Fascists will still insist that Mussolini drained the marshes and got the trains running on time. Will there ever be a residue of gratitude merited by his contemporary…
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Wherever there are three Englishmen two will establish a club so they can exclude the third. Thank Gawd (and Queen, and country), but not PBS, which will be milking the…
THE SENIOR CITIZEN’S EASTER EGG HUNT On Good Friday take 5 colored Easter eggs and hide them in various locations around your home. On Easter morning see how many of…
When Nancy Reagan passed away several days ago at age 94 yet another opportunity was created to haul out all the mythology of the Reagan…
The Dying Gaul (ca.1st C B.C., Capitoline Museum, Rome; sculptor unknown) War is good business. Not for everybody, but for the people in the war business. Just take a peek…
DCJ applauds the Motion Picture Academy’s selection of Spotlight as its “best picture” for 2015. The spotlight of public attention to the subject matter of this excellent motion picture seems…
This past week the flaccid mainstream American media compliantly rolled over and launched encomiums on the recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as though “speak no ill of the…
Fox News and the right wingnuts love to portray Barack Obama as a weak leader and an appeaser of terrorists. So what does our president do when we have a…