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The Price of War

  03/11/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We were having our usual Saturday morning breakfast, my dad and I, and talking about the war, something we often did. He fought through a (Continue Reading)

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Unlikely Heroes for a life-long liberal Democrat (think FDR)

  02/15/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Two of the most conservative people you could imagine have emerged as heroes (heroines would emphasize that both are female and further emphasize that an (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

This from a cartoonist, Oliver Markus Malloy

  02/14/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“MAGA dumbfucks think America turned to shit in the 1960s, when women, gays, and black people got equal rights. In reality, America turned to shit (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

New Way To Categorize Conservatives

  02/14/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This from David Brooks: you can tell what kind of conservative a conservative is by what era he wants to go back to. He says (Continue Reading)

Politics

Maybe someone could correct me on this………

  02/10/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Everywhere pundits and observers of the American scene decry the fall in trust of institutions. Larger and larger swathes of us feel a growing loss (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

They’re catching up to me

  02/09/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I’ve heard Francis Fukuyama refer to the Libertarian underpinnings of the Project 2025 movement and even mention Integralism. Others are now seeing the involvement (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action, Uncategorized

The Judge, the Bishop, and Phyllis Fong

  01/31/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Two high profile people and a civil servant – a trio of heroes.Judge Howell wrote a scathing decision on Trump’s illegal moves as president; Bishop (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

These irk me…..

  01/29/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I want to give free rein to some of my less accountable and self-indulgent thoughts. In the coterie of my friends there arises an impatience (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

A Conservative Hit List

  01/29/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

International aid groups that depend on U.S. funding appeared shocked. “The recent stop-work cable from the State Department suspends programs that support America’s global leadership (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

What Democrats, liberals and progressives have to stop doing

  01/29/2025       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Stop using words like ‘quite.’ Quite is a mollifier, and softener, a ameliorator, and it smoothes over harsh, true statements. Susan Collins has made the (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

Is this gas lighting on the left?

  12/01/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“The American people didn’t vote for all this ridiculous bullshit, and we need to keep fighting.” Gas lighting is defined in my entry To Start (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

How You Teach Reading Tells A Lot About You

  11/29/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

If you look through my categories or just search ‘reading’ you’ll find a lot of passionate entries on the topic. But I’ve neglected that for (Continue Reading)

Teaching & Learning

Stress yourself then test

  11/24/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For over a month I’ve been coming back from a month-long hiatus in exercise. Not quite true if you count lugging luggage over an unfamiliar (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise

In Response to Pundits

  11/15/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I will have toreturn to this entry often. I am perturbed by comments from people who know better. Example1: Richard Haas saying that Trump’s allocation (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

A retrospective

  11/12/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After being married into a Black American family for about ten years and so in the decade of the 70s, the scene was changing in (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

Time to shift to a new paradigm

  11/11/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

That sounds pretty erudite, doesn’t it. What the fuck is a paradigm and will it fit into my pick-up (almost forgot the hyphen) with all (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

To Start Anew

  11/09/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Failure to blog. Since I started campaigning I’ve done very little blogging. My thoughts and energies have gone instead to TikTok of all things. At (Continue Reading)

Project 2025 in Action

When cultures come together…. along with other things.

  09/02/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

You can be fooled when you assume a White person has an intimate relationship with Black people simply because they can actually clap in time (Continue Reading)

Culture

Lose? Are You Crazy?

  08/21/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here is the essence of why the democratic principle that says you must be willing to lose does not work for conservatives: they believe they (Continue Reading)

Politics, Uncategorized

Who(m) do you choose?

  07/03/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

First consideration: is there anyone they love? If you need a definition of love you are out of this conversation. Think of Trump: who does (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

Time to hit the books and learn Italian

  06/29/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No joke, as Biden would say. Between the calls for Biden to move aside (for who[m]?) and finishing Stuart Steven’s new book, The Conspiracy to (Continue Reading)

Personal

Alito Tears His Britches

  06/10/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In response to a person declaring that as a faithful Catholic she doesn’t see how the Left can be worked with, read compromised with, and (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

The real shift

  03/27/2024       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For all my life I and my friends have gently ridiculed conservatives and their “bible based” crack-pot ideas about lost tribes and the naked greed (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024, Uncategorized
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