Underestimating the Enemy

Useless speculations don’t make a strategy Image by Special:Contributions/Saul ip, Wikimedia Commons under CCA-SA license I read a really superficial “news” commentary recently.  The Washington Post put out a piece of fluff called “How scary is Putin’s Russia compared to the Soviet Union? This chart has some answers“.  I am glad…

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The Ignorant Know-It-Alls, Part 3: How to Keep the Sabbath

Jewish tzitzit, or tassels, both styles Picture by Sheynhertz-Unbayg 3 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. 2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. 3 And he…

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Gettysburg, JFK and Peace

  Only known photograph of President Abraham Lincoln giving Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war,…

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