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How Long? (Ben Franklin Wants to Know)

In 1955, ten years before her mysterious death, celebrity journalist Dorothy Kilgallen — now there’s an Irish drinking name, even though she was American and sober — heard a story while on vacation in Britain from a high-ranking military officer … Continue reading

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Change Is Our Only Hope

As a ferocious liberal who does not like the Left-Right dichotomy, which artificially polarizes us, and as an Appalachian, born and raised in the Laurel Highland Mountains of Western Pennsylvania, bituminous coal country, I became radicalized by witnessing the culture … Continue reading

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Review of The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2013, hc ISBN: 978-1-4516-4020-5 485pp, map on endpapers A Review by Gene Stewart This is a Bob Lee Swagger novel. That’s the lead character. He smacks of Mary Sue, along the … Continue reading

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