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No Messages from me from Beyond the Grave

I am still writing for a friend’s blog.  Here is a recent effort that is self explanatory:
Beyond the Grave
Filed in Thomas Fiske articles on Apr.05, 2010

Another amusing article by my friend, Tom Fiske:
I saw an Internet article titled “Texting from Beyond the Grave.” New technology allows a person to embed [...]

Barack’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost

In my forthcoming book, Ploughshares into Swords, I tell how a Colonel in the US Army visited Belgium at the end of WWII. At an inn an old Belgian man wanted permission to kiss the colonel because the American Army had save Belgium not once but twice from the German horde. “American chickens had [...]

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Jena School Debacle

I was watching a baseball game on TV recently when I saw a wonderful sight.  People streamed into the stands and sat down to watch.  They were people of all kinds and nobody cared who sat where as long as he or she had the correct ticket number.  They watched the game and ate their [...]

Fears that Never Go Away

It was in the 1959-1960 period that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was running for president.  He was handsome, charming, humorous, and well-spoken.  Yet, some folks were deeply concerned about JFK.  What was their concern?  Well, he has a Catholic, and a Catholic had never been in the Oval Office before.  Didn’t it stand to reason that [...]

Michael Vick and His Dogs

Long in the minority, I am a white guy who likes Michael Vick and hates what happened to him.  What he did was unkind to dumb animals.  I want animals treated better than that.

The real problem is that Michael should have kept up with social mores.  They changed years ago to the point where staging [...]

Politics and Religion

It is only human.  Whenever a religious person gets mixed up in politics, his religion goes out the window.  He soon warps his religious ideas so that they support his politics.  It never seems to work the other way, that a man’s politics change to accommodate his religion.  I can imagine that is why our [...]

Great Time to Be Alive

A friend called me today and asked if I wanted to go for a cup of coffee.  I did, because I have been researching the Soviet space program all day for the Cold War period.  It is background for a book I am writing.

Always unpredictable, I had an iced tea instead of coffee.  While we [...]

Moral Superiority

When I was a boy I was brought up in an Episcopal church in the South. I loved that church, its members and the priest. Many years later I still think of him. He was a successful minister of a rapidly growing church. He was rewarded by being made the evangelistic [...]

Bishops Lobby for Illegals

There is an interesting article in my local newspaper today by Norberto Santana, Jr. It is an opinion piece presented as news that tells how Catholic bishops are lobbying to keep families together.  That is, to force the U.S. Government to keep Catholic kids with their parents in the U.S.  In other words, to open [...]

Illegals and all that Jazz

Some people in the media are trying to make me apologize to the illegals who broke our laws and sneaked across the border.  I am sorry, I just don’t feel guilty about their lawlessness.

And now President Bush has decided I am un-American if I question the Senate bill on immigration.  I am getting it from [...]