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Phyllis Schlafly, born on this day in 1924 in St Louis, Missouri, USA, was a staunch defender of the rights of women to be mothers. “I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school.” and “Anyone with a child knows that…
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84 years ago today Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us (and still challenges) to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque…
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I read today in cathnews.com, that newly re-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now claiming that his government is a symbol for what he is calling “progressive patriotism”. I will now quote some phrases from the cathnews article and comment how these words relate to the reality of Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor…
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Donald Trump and Pope Leo. Both Americans. How will they get on? Geoff Fox, Australia, 11th May, 2025
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HOW TIMES CHANGE – 2 CONTRASTING APRIL 5th DEATHS – GENERAL DOUGLAS MaCARTHUR and SINGER KURT COBAIN
General Douglas MacArthur died in hospital on April 5th 1964. In the following days 150,000 people viewed his casket. A hero. A genius. 84 years old. 30 years later April 5th is probably the day singer Kury Cobain died by a self inflicted gunshot to the head. Rich, famous, 28 years old. His suicide note…
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In the 1960’s Bob Dylan became a star as a singer of folk protest songs for change and against war and nuclear madness, but then reinvented Rock and Roll (lifting it to Nobel Prize standards) by putting personal truth ahead of the suffocating politically correct (PC) artistic coercion he met in folk circles. In the…
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This morning in church, I heard a wonderful priest talk of Lent as a time for reset. A Great Reset? The priest talked of Lent as a time to reset and of Jesus going into the wilderness; 40 days with no food; a letting go of entitlements and expectations of selfish power The priest said…
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In my opinion, the great artistic acts for freedom of speech in American artistic history include: Mark Twain opposing racist bigotry through The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Walt Whitman’s life long Hymn to America a.k.a Leaves Of Grass. Chaplin Celebrating the male capacity for Parental Love in his first feature film The Kid. Hank Williams…
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Donald Trump is not just a political genius domestically but geopolitically as well. Transforming the current quagmire of Gaza with a new Riviera would create jobs. That would lift the living standards of many local workers. Those workers would have to be good at hospitality not hatred and terrorism. Will it work? Can The Donald…
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I have long believed that Richard Nixon was the most seriously under rated American president in my lifetime. When John Lennon sang: “No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky DickyIs gonna mother hubbard soft soap meWith just a pocketful of hopeMoney for dopeMoney for rope” I had no effective retort to either the strength of this…
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