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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 23, 2020
There’s something peculiar about Joe Biden’s love of masks. Since 1987 -- when he hid behind words that sounded eerily similar to a speech…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 20, 2020
Like the child who stands against the prevailing pusillanimous psychosis of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in the 1837 Hans Christian Andersen tale of…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 17, 2020
Fiction writers occasionally employ the term, “He who shall not be named,” to refer to some great malevolence. August Derleth applied it to the dark…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 12, 2020
If there is one overriding principle that inspired American colonials to venture onto the eastern shores of this continent, it is religious…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 12, 2020
In June, we reported on one of the disasters hidden in the toweringly unconstitutional “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security” (CARES) Act…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 11, 2020
  Springfield, Illinois. The capital of the state. Sixth most populous city. A place with some of the worst-performing public schools in…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 10, 2020
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer strikes again -- this time seeming so Red Queen megalomaniacal that observers might be tempted to ask, “Are you…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 7, 2020
  “Checkpoint Charlie”: the portal between East and West Berlin during the brutal Soviet occupation of East Germany. It was a place where…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 3, 2020
Remember that dusty ol’ thing, the US Constitution? From their actions, it’s clear that many contemporary politicians either don’t remember it, or…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 3, 2020
Perhaps this is the way many American Colonials felt upon hearing of the Boston Tea Party, or, to give it a musical spin, perhaps this is what…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 30, 2020
In an example of how far the aggressive, authoritarian, and utterly lawless political class is prepared to go in their Tsarist zeal to make free…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 28, 2020
There’s an old saying: “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” implying that stats can be turned into -- or support – some of the worst lies…