Poetry: Kipling – The Gods of the Copybook Headings

"As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!" Kipling - The Gods of the Copybook Headings

Review: Brave New World

Brave New World: a place devoid of all meaning and life.

Beware the Slow Death

Our freedoms will likely not be lost in one swift blow, but instead by the careful and steady hand of "silent encroachment". This is why we must remain on the side of truth, on the side of what is right. Let us not be self-serving but seek to serve truth and justice. Encroaching on the …

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Never Again…?

Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day for the Jews, called Yom Hashoah. The U.S. had a day of remembrance a couple of months ago, but that day came and went without much comment. Coincidentally, today happens to be a day when a mass grave of Jews found in Poland was announced in 1943. This mass grave, …

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Animal Farm: Allegory Illuminating Reality

“You can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs (Duranty).” These words, quoted by many, state quite calmly that you cannot have success without some loss along the way. Or to put it in communistic morphed socialist terms, “you can’t have progress without destroying the lives of many people, mostly our own.” It is …

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