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The Corruption Before Trump

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

We are where we are in American politics, in part, because all these big-picture projects succeeded in enriching private interests … but failed to achieve their...

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Deep Black by Sean McFate

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

The plot is fast-moving with a few surprising turns. The action spans from Iraq to Turkey to England. The plot also includes a lot of intrigue involving not onl...

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Book Review: Decision Points by George W Bush

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

No matter your opinion of George W Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, a lot of momentous events happened during his eight years in office; from the ...

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Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq by Mark Urban

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

There is no doubt that the special forces of the United States have been heavily involved in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars since those wars’ initial stage...

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Home and Away by David and Nancy French

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Overall, an interesting story that offers a unique and valuable perspective for our times.

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The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

Wars fought like World War II may be in the past for the United States. Our country’s wars of the future will be more counterinsurgency focused where our ...

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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