Monthly Archives: October 2026

  I.  History

During the Reagan years, when I first developed a political awareness just a few years before I was 40, my memory of what knowledge I began to acquire about the Arab world left me with a certain impression of Oman.  Oman was located in the northeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula and was then governed by the most pro-Western (monarchical) government east of the Maghreb with the sole exception of Anwar Sadat’s Egypt.  (Unfortunately, the Muslim Brotherhood…..

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Two generations of American novelists referred to Ernest Hemingway as ‘Papa’ because his fiction writing style was so innovative compared to previous fiction writers.  Hemingway became a young newspaper reporter who meticulously learned the Dogmatic Protocols of (non-college indoctrinated) journalism.  You must answer six questions: four are basic factual questions (Who?  What?  When?  Where?) and two are partially speculative questions about context and meaning (Why?  How?).

In 1915, Italy joined the allied side of WWI.  Hemingway, born in 1899, had…..

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   I.  Introduction

At least as pitiful as the Communist Sanchez’s illegitimately installed Spanish government and the UK Labour Party (Hard-Left Islamic Alliance) supremely unpopular and totally dishonest UK government, is the biggest individual POS in Europe political leader of formerly republican France – Emmanuel Macron – in his near decade old practicing dictatorship.

  II.  2023

June 30, 2023, on this website, in a tiny little essay titled “The Sorrow and the Pity – Part II,” I made note…..

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  I.  History

Arguably the most famous literature of Civilized Medieval Islam was “Arabian Nights” wherein a nightly entertaining fantasy kept the storyteller alive for just one more day.  Fantasies about flying carpets and such made for very entertaining stories.

 II.  My Contemporary Fantasies

So Saudi Arabia wants to build a $9 million mosque in Catholic Cuba.  Maybe Pope Leo could beg for permission to build a $9 million church in Saudi Arabia where churches existed for many centuries before…..

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