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" I went down to the Piraeus yesterday ..." is how Plato begins The Republic , with the poetic description of Socrates descending ...

I recently watched a C-SPAN show by Robert Remini , who has written a number of books on Andrew Jackson (seemingly 'apologies' for h...

What's that sound? I've been hearing it for a while now , it was quite distant a couple months back, but it has been approaching and...

You can’t look at Obama’s appointment list of Clinton era retreads, Bush administration carryovers, and of course ‘I haven’t renounced my Ir...

When I first met Sam, we were still new to Missouri, and he and his family were neighbors of ours in a condo development that was starting t...

The Concord Hymn -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837) By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; Here once...

I watched a C-Span show about Edmund Burke this weekend by Gertrude Himmelfarb, and one thing she pointed out was how the German philosopher...

Science Starting to show my work. Again. The focus of awareness The Guiding Dark Free Will To new atheists, and old alchemists, from the gro...