Photo by Evan Vucci (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Photo by Evan Vucci (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Despite what you may have thought, heard, or read, Saturday evening’s sniper attack on Donald Trump wasn’t the first time someone attempted to cause him physical harm during a campaign rally — it was the third. But as far as I can remember, it was the first time that high-ranking opponents expressed sympathy and support for America’s most reviled man. (more…)
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By the time you read this, just about every angle surrounding Saturday’s failed assassination of Donald Trump will have been covered. How is Trump doing? Who was the shooter? (more…)
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Nero was only 16 when he became Emperor. His coming to power had nevertheless been enabled by several murders and/or suspiciously timely deaths. Claudius may or may not have died accidentally, but Narcissus, who favored Britannicus and the Senator Silanus, were poisoned almost certainly on the orders of Nero’s mother. (more…)
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Alexander Bätz
Nero: Wahnsinn und Wirklichkeit
Hamburg: Rowohlt Buchverlag, 2023
Among those able to name any Roman emperors, Nero is likely to be on their list. Although he was Roman Emperor for only 14 years, from 54 to 68 AD, he is widely viewed as one of the most famous or infamous of all of them, strongly associated with the persecution of the Christians and the murder of both his mother and wife, and he is widely seen as the embodiment of tyranny. (more…)
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He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Takes one to know one,” as the old saw goes. FDR’s “our son of a bitch” reference, which some say is apocryphal, was to Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua from 1937 to 1956. (more…)
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On August 20th, Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian geopolitical thinker Alexander Dugin, was killed when her vehicle exploded as she was leaving a festival where her father spoke. (more…)
If you’re a dissident, you shouldn’t act surprised when these guys show up at your door.
If you’re a dissident, you shouldn’t act surprised when these guys show up at your door.
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A Trumpeter, prisoner made,
Hoped his life would be spared when he said
He’d no part in the fight,
But they answered him “Right,
But what of the music you made? (more…)