Blood is the fertilizer of freedom. Maybe yours and mine.
Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have just told that recruiter to send me in prison instead.
The navy took them from all walks of life and winnowed out anyone who showed signs of self-doubt—in other words, anyone who carried the usual baggage of humility that weighed down most of the human ra...
As the governor scanned it, Swim explained. Liberal progressive policies for the last fifty years or so have devastated the poor people of America. Welfare; aid to dependent families; food stamps; ess...
Whoever rules the waves rules the world. —Alfred Thayer Mahan Six
What was it Pound had said in the Cantos? I am not a demigod—I can’t make it cohere.
I’ve talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now.
His ranch adjoined the Rio Grande, the river that formed the boundary between the United States and Mexico, with its poverty, caste system, and systemic corruption. So the poor Mexicans migrated. Over...
Charlie Swim wasn’t finished, and his voice was rising. The black people in America were doing all right, working their way up the ladder, until drugs came along. Then welfare, and payments to single...
The criticism of the Soetoro administration kept rolling, mixing with a broad criticism of liberalism and federal judges. I am sick of federal judges deciding that the United States Constitution requi...
If there were no love there would be no hatred. Just sorrow. And
If it floats, flies or fucks, rent—don’t buy!
I sat there driving through America wondering about Barry Soetoro and his disciples. I have never trusted people who think they know how everyone else should live, and demand those other people obey....
I am reminded of the words of that great American patriot Thomas Paine: ‘If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Though the corners were routinely used to store farm machinery and fodder for the animals and occasionally to get a sensitive animal in out of the sun. Primarily the building existed
We are all tossed on the stormy seas of fate, at the mercy of men and forces beyond our power to comprehend, control or deflect. Sometimes we need an illusion.
This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political
The president’s chief of staff, Al Grantham, blew up. By reputation, he was one of the most aggressive leftists on the president’s staff, and, although he was white, was of the opinion that white Amer...
The president is declaring martial law tomorrow. He wants you standing behind him tomorrow at ten o’clock in the press room when he announces it. Jake Grafton didn’t look surprised. I was flabbergaste...
The hubbub subsided somewhat. Everyone wanted to know what Charlie Swim thought. The problem here is that Washington politicians haven’t had the guts to impeach Soetoro. And I’ll tell you why. He’s bl...