The Dark Road Ahead: The Future of U.S.-Iranian Relations by Jill Dennison
The Dark Road Ahead: The Future of U.S.-Iranian Relations
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A View From North Of The Border by Jill Dennison
Last week I did a post based on Charles M. Blow’s column titled “Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0” about the history of racism in this nation and how, with the current wave of voter suppression laws targeting mainly Blacks, this nation seems to have made a U-turn and is heading back to the days of […]
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A Gross Miscarriage of Justice by Jill Dennison
A Gross Miscarriage of Justice Texas has been much in the news lately. First you had the winter storms … people dying because of power outages that could have been avoided had it not been for the stubborn resolve of the state to be independent of the rest of the nation. And off went ol’ Ted […]
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Milly – Part 1 by Jennie Fitzkee
Milly – Part 1 Posted on July 15, 2021 by Jennie Our “This Land is Your Land” quilt was the last quilt my class made. Let’s start at the beginning. How did quilting in my classroom even begin? It was a divergent pathway. Every good story has a great backstory. To know how Milly came into […]
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STOP! by Jill Dennison
STOP! I sometimes have to laugh when I hear it said that the U.S. is such a progressive, forward-thinking nation, for others are far ahead of the U.S. in many ways. One of those ways is plastics, or more specifically, the elimination of single-use plastics. Take New Zealand, for example, the country that has committed […]
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Commitment To Ignorance? by Jill Dennison
Commitment To Ignorance? More than a few times in the past few months/years, I have thought that the biggest hurdle to sanity in our country was one thing: ignorance. I don’t say ‘stupidity’, for that implies an inability to comprehend, but rather ignorance, which is the refusal to comprehend, to consider other options, other ways […]
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Closing Thought–08Jul21 by lobotero.com
Closing Thought–08Jul21 One of the big ideas for trying to control all the gun violence in the US is the use of background checks when buying that gun…… And how is that working out? America’s gun background check system, designed to keep weapons out of the hands of people who might use them in […]
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Closing Thought–06Jul21 by lobotero.com
Closing Thought–06Jul21 Oops! My bad! A head honcho lobbyists at Exxon just revealed that he has 11 US Senators in his pocket and they will do as they are told in the law making process…… From an interview with Keith McCoy is a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist on Capitol Hill… McCoy said he has 11 […]
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Marquis De Lafayette by lobotero.com
Marquis De Lafayette Since we are in the process of celebrating our independence I thought that a young Frenchman should be recognized for his assistance in our fight…. One of the ‘heroes’ of the American Revolution…..a French noble that came to fight on the side of the Colonials….. At a dinner on August 8, 1775, […]
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Killed in Action on Independence Day 1863 by Joy Neal Kidney
Company H, 39th Iowa Infantry Regiment After the call for volunteers came from the White House, James Redfield of Wiscotta, Iowa, became lieutenant colonel of Company H, 39th Iowa Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War. (I’ve read that only single men were accepted as volunteers, but Redfield was a family man, as were others in […]
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