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Shakespeare Theatre Best Puck Ever

Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre is presenting free performances of Midsummer Night’s Dream through 9/13. This is the 3rd time I’ve seen that play since July & this version was superb. Adam Green does a magnificent job as Puck.  In a Washington Post profile of the three local versions of Shakespeare’s play, Green commented, “You don’t have […]

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MP3 – The End of Govt. Waste? North Carolina Radio

WTKF host Lockwood Phillips and I had a lively 15 minute chat last night about the U.S. News article on government waste.    The interview concludes with Lockwood asking me, “Congress can bring back to life anything, can’t it?” “Except the Bill of Rights,” I replied. Here’s the MP3 of this broadcast out of Morehead City, […]

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Is Government Waste Incurable? One Case Study

U.S. NEWS The End of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation? Not So Fast By James Bovard The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation’s ship has sunk after Congress refused to bail out the federal agency that critics say serves no legitimate purpose. It stayed afloat for more than two decades thanks to lawmakers doling out millions of […]

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MP3 – Appalachian Thru Hiker Hoopla

Talk show legend Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy chat today on his Libertas Media Project podcast on the Midsummer Shakespeare Brawl, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and whether the  American political system is beyond hope. Since Brian is aware that I’ve been doing a little hiking, he asked about a recent story about hikers in […]

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Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar

From today’s interview with Press TV.  Their journalist caught me early in the day before I had done any cussing, so I probably wasn’t as caustic as I should have been. ****** Experts are correct in blaming the US Federal Reserve’s policies for a nosedive that the US dollar has taken in value, says an […]

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On Iowa’s Top Talk Show 10 A.M. Today

I will be on the radio at 10:07 a.m. EDT with Iowa’s top talk show host, Jan Mickelson It will be a free-ranging chat – we may talk about how Rand Paul and other candidates are doing in Iowa – the Trump tidal wave – and probably lots of laughs as well. You can listen […]

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