Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

In the summer of 2006, after my orchestra played Carnegie Hall, my husband and I spent a couple of weeks touring around upstate New York.  We visited Revolutionary War sites, including the battlefield at Saratoga, and Fort Ticonderoga.  This is a view of Lake Champlain, seen through the frame of a window in one of …

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September 11, A Day of Infamy

On September 11, 2001, the most horrible act of Islamic Terrorism was perpetrated against our country. A well-rehearsed team of Islamist Fanatics commandeered commercial jetliners full of innocent civilians, and deliberately flew them into the two towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, in the city of New York, the Pentagon in Washington, …

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Politicians In Disgrace…

In The News Today: The Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Patrick Cannon, ARRESTED, then RESIGNS. California State Senator Leland Yee, ARRESTED on various fraud charges. US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under FBI INVESTIGATION for giving campaign money to his granddaughter. Rhode Island House speaker Gordon Fox, UNDER INVESTIGATION BY FBI, IRS, US Attorney's office. …

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Are We Citizens? Or Are We Subjects?

This is a very pertinent question these days, when we hear daily of transgressions against us by our Intelligence Services, the Tax-collecting agency, and our own Justice (?) Department. When the powers-that-be on all levels of government are delegating more and more quasi-legislative power over us, to un-elected bureaucrats. When even the federal Department of …

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