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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Recessional

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  Winged bull from the throne room of Sargon II (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)      Saturday dawned quiet.  The big pots were...
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Work in progress: Jack Clark on giving books titles

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     Regular contributor Jack Clark has been on a roll. Readers like him, I like him. To be honest, I might not even have thought that today...
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Friday, April 3, 2026

Birthright citizenship opposition puts the lie to 'illegal'

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Haters pretend they have no problem with legal immigrants, when of course they do.       Thursday morning, when I was having coffee in the ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2026

Passover 2026 — remembering one difficult time in another difficult time

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     This ran in the paper Wednesday, while here I deployed the mandatory April Fool's post which, I'm pleased to report, did catch...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Dante on EGD: 100 Days, 100 Cantos

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                  Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita                mi ritovai per una selva oscura                che la diritta via era s...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Swinging into spring

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Truth in advertising — the Waterlily Tulip, a central Asian flower is known as being first to bloom in the spring and, good to its word, was...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

There is no debate over the ongoing abuse of immigrants

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"The Last Yankee," 1888      Journalism is failing America.      At least mainstream media, newspapers and TV networks and such, t...
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