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Like Jeremy Jim I joined the Marines at age 17. We’d both go through officer boot camp during the summer breaks while in college. This was at Quantico, Virginia. My first summer there I was out at Camp Upshur where I spent six weeks living in a Quonset hut. I was part of a group…

On Wednesday Bill Cassidy a U.S. Republican senator from Louisiana who is also a medical doctor was asked about him not referring to the coronavirus in the same way that Trump refers to it by calling it the Chinese Virus. Cassidy a Trump supporter did not comment specifically on Trump’s use of that term but…

I always have been mystified trying to figure out why black Americans love our country so much that despite their treatment and lack of appreciation from some of their fellow white Americans they continue save our nation from going over the cliff. The latest example is the vote in the states with a large percentage…

“These are truly the times that try one’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Thomas Paine – 19 December 1776 These are truly the times that…

Is it worth being a so-called world champion if to gain that honor you cheat? The answer that comes from Boston is “of course.” Cheating by Bill Belichick and the Patriots is an old story. They were exposed on Sep 13, 2007, ESPN news service wrote: “ “New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was fined the…

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the New England eleven that day: The score stood fourteen  to thirteen, with little time to play. And then when the enemy used the clock to help their game, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.   A straggling few got up to go in deep despair,…