(Carmen Negrin, -France, 03/04/21 3:27 am)
My thanks to Brian Blodgett (March 3rd). It is nice and rare today to be able to exchange views with a Republican. Normally politics should be about political content, not about their leader. That is
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Posts on 03/03/21
Before Reaffirming Your Support of Trump, Let the Courts Have Their Say
(Leo Goldberger, USA, 03/03/21 1:51 pm)
Thank God we have freedom of speech in our still wonderful democratic country--yet one cannot help but wonder about its rational limits! As we have suffered these past four years with the dramatic d
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Not All Trump Supporters are Unthinking Cultists
(Brian Blodgett, USA, 03/03/21 11:00 am)
I am constantly seeing claims that Trump has 74 million fanatic cult followers and, as a Republican, I can say that I am not in a cult, as far as I am concerned, but rather just opposed to some of the
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Those of Us Who Love Trump
(George Aucoin, -France, 03/03/21 6:53 am)
Of course Trump is not gone. Despite the regressive Democrat[ic] Party's attempt to exterminate him through a four-year Russian collusion campaign, a collaborative Fourth Estate invested enti
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Wagner`s Ring Cycle: Free and Online
(Edward Jajko, USA, 03/03/21 4:37 am)
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, in the staging by Francesca Zambello, will be presented FREE beginning the first weekend of March.
Saturday-Sunday, March 6-7, will bring Das R
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Trump is NOT Gone
(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 03/03/21 3:55 am)
John Eipper commented on my post of March 1st: "Tor, what a terrifying choice! Civil war on the one hand, dictatorship on the other? How about a gradual return to the pre-2017 status quo? Tru
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"Crown Thy Good with Sisterhood"?
(Henry Levin, USA, 03/03/21 3:40 am)
I always like Tor Guimaraes's insights, but I was put off by one word in "America the Beautiful" and his affirmation that "all words in the song are still truthful." I must d
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Posts on 03/02/21
Spain`s Civil War Didn`t Arrive Soon Enough? Nonsense
(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 03/02/21 9:38 am)
In response to Eugenio Battaglia's post of today I have two points to make:
Firstly, when I comment on other countries' history I try to be sure of my command of the relevant historiogra
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In Spain, Might the Uprising Have Occurred too Late?
(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 03/02/21 4:20 am)
Maybe the planning for Spain's military uprising of July 1936 did not begin on 14 April 1931 but started when the people of that nation realized what was going to face with the Republic and the fo
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Richter, Lysenko: A Pseudo-Science Hall of Fame? (from Gary Moore)
(John Eipper, USA, 03/02/21 3:23 am)
Gary Moore writes:
To Timothy Ashby's interesting travelogue on the "Austrian" sanctuary of Bariloche, Argentina, John E appended a rich aside that opens
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