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Sunday Thoughts May 29 2023
Listen now (30 min) | If it is Monday, well, it is Sunday.
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Our Struggle With Harry Lime
There are movies that turn up on the greatest film lists because they represent a technical advance or maybe a change in how films are presented. There…
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The Ukraine Crisis
Way back in my corporate days, the company I was with had acquired another company out of bankruptcy. I was put on the team to transition the newly…
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Sunday Thoughts May 21, 2023
Listen now (30 min) | If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
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The Ukraine Quagmire
Napoleon supposedly said, “When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna,” which meant that once you set on a course of action, execute it aggressively…
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The Paradox Of Tolerance
According to civic nationalism, politics should be a debate about the priorities of society and how best to accomplish those things. If the majority…
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Sunday Thoughts May 14, 2023
Listen now (30 min) | If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
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The Ungovernable Country
Thirty years ago, the death of Jordan Neeley on the New York City subway would have been a different story than it is today. Al Sharpton would have…
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Travel Woes
I have always enjoyed travel, even the mundane aspects of it like navigating the American airport system or learning a public transit system in new…
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Sunday Thoughts May 07, 2023
Listen now (30 min) | If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
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The Brown Flag Option
I saw Tucker Carlson give a speech a few months after Trump won the 2016 election and, in that speech, Carlson talked about how he believed in Bigfoot…
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The Radical Farmer
An old chestnut that "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" is often phrased as “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” In…
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