Truth Behind the Icon

The iconic photo of Che Guevara was cropped. #photography #Original #PhotographyRedefined

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Book Sales

The average U.S. book is now selling less than 200 copies per year and less than 1,000 copies over its lifetime.

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Zoom Issues

Has anyone been on a Teams/Zoom call (not w/in CONUS) where at least someone had a technical issue?

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Da’esh and the Dakotas

The report of Jeffrey Stahl Ferris’ suicide after a federal jury found him guilty of terror-related charges in North Dakota seemed strange to me. Da’esh, that is, ISIS, has but a tenuous grasp of geography outside what were traditional Muslim lands. New York they know, Florida they know (because of Disney) and they know Washington. But that’s really about it. The plot to blow up the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower in Chicago was not hatched by those accused of planning the bombing, but by a Lebanese informant who was paid handsomely for the suggestion.

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Maybe It's not Within the President's Power to Fix


Who Needs Vaccines?


Land of the Free--with Censorship


Deplatforming is Censorship


Don’t Pull the Plug

The risk that someone will yell “Fire!” is no reason to pull the plug on the projector.

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Girl, Taken

Arlington Heights is a tranquil place. World events seldom disturb the peace of the Northwest suburbs of Chicago until they do. On September 11, 1973, General Pinochet staged a coup against the president of Chile. Supporters loyal to the regime were rounded up and executed. One of these supporters was an American aide worker from Des Plaines named Frank Teruggi. After the coup, The Arlington Herald newspaper published a picture of his father on the front page, sitting in the kitchen, newspapers spread out before him wondering about the fate of his son.

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