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To Marshall, Minnesota to be exact. I’ve got a newsroom gig at a larger paper in a bigger town. Trucking paid the bills while I found another writing job, but I must say the romance of trucking palls a bit … Continue reading →

I commented on the Facebook site of a NATO reserve officer I correspond with sometimes. “Hooray! Now another bloody-handed Middle Eastern tyrant will fall. The United States will of course be blamed for everything that goes wrong during and afterward, … Continue reading →

“There were young knights among them who had never been present at a stricken field. Some could not look upon it and some could not speak and they held themselves apart from the others who were cutting down the prisoners … Continue reading →

I took the family to Fargo last Friday, and we wound up spending the weekend at the Holiday Inn after the blizzard shut down the Interstate. Soooo, we indulged ourselves in a few movies on the room’s big flat-screen TV. … Continue reading →

Note: They tell you in journalism school not to interview your friends, with good reason. But sometimes there’s nobody else to do it. The interview, a result of my trip to Belarus was posted on The Atlasphere website. My last … Continue reading →

This looks like it’ll become a regular feature. You know you’re a contrarian when you read Pamela Geller (who blogs at Atlas Shrugs) in The American Thinker quoting Robert Spencer, “Muslims are the first immigrant group that has ever come … Continue reading →

I just got this email circular about Democrats. Most of it is I think, both witty and on the mark. But… (There’s always a “but,” isn’t there?) On a few of these points, I have to ask some searching questions. … Continue reading →

I’m in Minsk, Belarus. A good friend, a leader of the opposition is being leaned on. He’s lucky at that, many of his partners in his party and colleagues in other opposition parties are in jail. The fact he’s not … Continue reading →

I found something kind of funny in all the fuss about Sarah Palin confusing “North” with “South” Korea on the Glenn Beck show. 1) She had been talking about South Korea previously in the program – so yes, it was … Continue reading →

The other day I was having a friendly discussion with some people of generally liberal persuasion, concerning the economic situation and economics in general. I was wondering how to get over some basic concepts of free market economics without getting … Continue reading →