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Observing Presidents’ Day

Monday, February 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Image of Washington monument with Trump in front of Mount Rushmore and couple buying a car inset.

Presidents’ Day: it’s about the sales, man Alas, “Presidents’ Day” has become just another jingoistic way to induce Americans to shop for cars and mattresses. And this is one distortion or, in this case, commercialization of history that has nothing to do with race matters. Instead, this one stems from TV commercials now heralding and defining this… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, American History, Commercialization, Donald Trump, George Washington, MLK, Mount Rushmore, Political Commentary, presidents' day

I Urged Biden to Channel Washington, He’s Channeling Trump Instead

Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Biden, Obama, Schumer, Pelosi presidential campaign

Biden channeling Trump Biden’s Trumpian delusions of indispensability are frustrating efforts to get him to withdraw. He stubbornly ignored private entreaties to do so gracefully. Now there’s a farcical mutiny afoot. But, with all due respect to Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and others, they should have made their entreaties in November 2022 — after Biden’s blue… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Biden presidential campaign, Democratic Party, George Washington, Joe Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, withdraw

Washington Monument’s KKK Imagery

Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Washington monument with repairmen repelling down and image of George Washington as Freemason inset.

KKK imagery The top of the Washington Monument looks like the hood of a Ku Klux Klansman. This was thrown into stark relief last week. The media were covering workers repelling down the Monument. They were inspecting the damage caused by the recent earthquake. Most people seemed mesmerized by the workers’ Cirque-du-Soleil acrobatics. But I… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Freemason, George Washington, KKK, Washington Monument

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