Post #7823 M: Trump Stalls on Iran Peace Talks; The Welfare Trap: Benjamin Franklin's Forgotten Warning; SOHO Debate: Does gun control make us safer?

 Quote of the Day

There's only one way to succeed in anything 

and that is to give everything.

Vince Lombardi  

Trump Stalls on Iran Peace Talks

The Welfare Trap: Benjamin Franklin's Forgotten Warning

SOHO Debate: Does gun control make us safer?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of M. Wuerker via Politico 

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

Shotgun - Jr. Walker & the All Stars

Post #7814 M: Smile 3; The 17th Amendment Broke the Founders Kill Switch; What If the Future is Actually Good?

 Quote of the Day

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, 

I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. 

I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston Churchill  

Smile 3

The 17th Amendment Broke the Founders Kill Switch

What If the Future is Actually Good?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Bill Bramhall via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 00 Hits

Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman’s Hermits

Post #7698 M: Farewell to Colbert, Trump Wages War on Republicans; They're not Saving America; McClanahan on Lincoln Isn't Conservative

 Quote of the Day

There is no moral precept 

that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot  

Farewell to Colbert, Trump Wages War on Republicans

They're not Saving America. They're Killing it.

McClanahan on Lincoln Isn't Conservative

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Rick Mckee via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1964 Top 100 Hits

Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups

Post #7665 M: Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire Again; McClanahan on Has the Playbook Been Revealed?; This isn't a Republic. It's a Coup.

 Quote of the Day

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. 

Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, 

the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George  

Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire Again

McClanahan on Has the Playbook Been Revealed?

This isn't a Republic. It's a Coup.

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of PX Millina via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1963 Top 100 Hits

Detroit City - Bobby Bare

Post #7635 M: Trump Wants To Cut And Run In Iran; McClanahan on Are Conservatives Changing History?; Commander. Not King

 Quote of the Day

Things are beautiful 

if you love them.

Jean Anouilh  

Trump Wants To Cut And Run In Iran

McClanahan on Are Conservatives Changing History?

Commander. Not King

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of M. Wuerker via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1963 Top 100 Hits

Ricky Nelson - Fools Rush In

Post #7591 M: Trump Distracts from Epstein Files with War in Iran, MAGA Tries to Spin & Donny's Big Red Rash; McClanahan on Trump's "Unconventional" Messaging; This isn't America. It's a BETRAYAL of the Revolution

 Quote of the Day

Only as high as I reach can I grow, 

only as far as I seek can I go, 

only as deep as I look can I see, 

only as much as I dream can I be.

Karen Ravn  

Trump Distracts from Epstein Files with War in Iran, MAGA Tries to Spin & Donny's Big Red Rash

McClanahan on Trump's "Unconventional" Messaging

This isn't America. It's a BETRAYAL of the Revolution

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Lisa Benson via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1963 Top 100 Hits

Blue On Blue - Bobby Vinton. Just a periodic notice for this series. I follow Billboard year-end compilations republished on Wikipedia.

Post #7526 M: This isn't Defense. It's the Constitution Betrayed; Trump Wants Greenland Whether They Like it Or Not; Why 27 U.S. States Are Going Broke

 Quote of the Day

People begin to become successful 

the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay  

This isn't Defense. It's the Constitution Betrayed

Trump Wants Greenland Whether They Like it Or Not

Why 27 U.S. States Are Going Broke

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Phil Hands via US News

Musical Interlude: 1962 Top 100 Hits

Soul Twist - King Curtis

Post #7489 M: The REAL Monroe Doctrine; Trump Sues BBC for $10 Billion; McClanahan on Abolitionists Against the Civil War?

Quote of the Day

There must always remain something 

that is antagonistic to good.

Plato   

The REAL Monroe Doctrine

Trump Sues BBC for $10 Billion

McClanahan on Abolitionists Against the Civil War?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Jack Ohman via smerconish

Musical Interlude: Christmas 2025

Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas