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The outdoors, in the midst of the hustle and bustle around the Lenox library, is often a felicitous place to gather one’s thoughts and collect them in sentences on paper.

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take us all to tulsa

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Besides USA, ‘The Firm’ has hurt Ireland & India the most

Sources suspect Megxit merely may be another global distraction, designed to echo that ’60s infestation of Beatles???

Outlined against a blue-gray November sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Thomas, Cavanaugh, Barrett, and Trump.

They formed the logo of the Notre Dame-infused whirlwind before which one demographic bucket after another of the TV-dumb were swept over the virtual precipice by the real virus, itself impotent, unless people agree to swap air among friends and foes.

I breathe out, you breathe in – it’s the American way.

38% of families report permanent Trump rifts, only 29% report separate tables for vegans.

PrezDJ Trump let vegans off the hook for doing their Putin-pleasing meddling with America’s only homegrown holiday – and he did it at the kid’s table!

Dropout schools Harvard Law grad Cruz

Smart lawyers NEVER ask a question they don’t know the answer to, yet Cruz asks Zuckerberg: Who elected you?

Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO: Thank you for your query, Senator Cruz. As you know, I am an unfettered capitalist, an unregulated entrepreneur, if you will, and not an elected office holder.

My company dug the hole your voters crawled out of, sir.

Shocking post-election REVEAL

Some House Members don’t know how plain English works!

“We need to not ever use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again,” said Representative Abigail Spanberger, who narrowly won re-election in Virginia. “We lost good members because of that.”

Helpful Harry* sez:

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. (check it out ->)

The right thing to do is to get busy and write bills designed to guarantee that nobody leaves elementary school until they know how to read by book and how to write by hand. Book-learning made us into the savior of nations, and reading shall keep us free!

*Harry, our helper, is both a woman named Harriet and a man named Harold.

About the headline: read the wonderful story of Virginia O’Hanlon and the most reprinted editorial in newspaper history.

How a Bill Becomes a Law

Before a bill becomes a law, it must be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the President.

Laws begin as ideas. Since TV came into god-like omnipresence in the 1950s, almost all bills begin in the room where they draw up schemes about how to convince you that if you smoke brands such as Raleigh cigarettes, then the laws of nature will be suspended so that you won’t die of lung cancer, your wife will not choke on second-hand smoke, and your children will not grow up to become addicts!

So Miss D. Kupp schooled the boy-like president

Whether fake is a good thing or a bad thing is ripe for discussion. But who has time for that?

Dateline the Nineteen Sixties, not the Ken Burns version

A magnet for controversy during his nearly half-century Senate career, Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964, primarily because of his vehement opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and endorsed Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. In the months before switching, he had “been critical of the Democratic Administration for … enactment of the Civil Rights Law,” while Goldwater boasted of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

New York Times, Sept. 16, 1964.