by Win Lose or Draw | Jan 30, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
The oft repeated call by conservatives for small government is puzzling. What exactly does that mean? Do they want our government to be run by a single bureaucrat perhaps working out of a broom closet in Fairbanks, Alaska? That would be small, and as appealing as that...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jan 24, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
Here in America, we could paraphrase J.F.K’s words, as follows: We prefer the Rule of Law in the age of self-determination to unfettered lawlessness. America began in the historic fight for Self-determination known as the Revolutionary War. The desire to have our own...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jan 16, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
My name is John Anon, short for John Anonymous, and I am the resurrected spirit of the British Inspiration for the Founding Fathers, John Locke. I have come back from the grave to put one or two things right that my cousin Q seems to have gotten wrong! It was recently...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jan 10, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
A lot of otherwise intelligent people have been heard calling for two things in recent years, electing non-politicals and term limits. It seems we have little faith in the “politicians” we elect. Either we want the politicians we choose to come from a non-political...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jan 2, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
For this essay, I invoke the muses of the recently deceased Desmond Tutu and of Nelson Mandela, who ushered in a period of reconciliation and healing in South Africa following apartheid. Reconciliation and healing works. Animosity and divisiveness do not. Proposed:...
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