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Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

America, If you can’t tell the truth at a beheading, when can you?

On this day of infamy, Dec 7, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt coined the term “day of infamy”, I read the news headlines 80 years later and the dread keeps dripping.

It is now a battle … Read the rest

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

When Can You Speak the Truth?

Speaking the Truth

When can you speak the truth in 2020?

Oliver Cromwell’s character in “The Mirror and the Light” is asking the question in the 16th century, May 1536 and concludes a beheading (Anne Boyelyn) is the clarifying event … Read the rest

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