Tag: Politics
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A Democratic Voter’s Response to Republican ‘Trump is Still President’ Memes After the 2026 Midterm Elections
This is my response to a post by a Republican from Miami that was intended to minimize her party’s massive nationwide defeat in the 2026 midterm election. I wrote the original draft on my Facebook profile, but I revised it for today’s post. Here’s the original comment by Ana Maria Dominguez of Miami: Congratulations, Democrats!…
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Action in the South Atlantic! (A ‘Sea Power’ After Action Report)
LONG REACH Sixteen hundred miles from friendly air power, an American carrier force fought its way into a Soviet stronghold, destroyed it and left the city around it standing By Catherine M. HollisTIME CorrespondentDecember 1986 At 50 feet above the South Atlantic, a Tomahawk cruise missile has very little horizon. There is water ahead, water…
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The Strait of Fire (A ‘Sea Power’ Pacific Strike ’85 Campaign Episode)
TIME Magazine — July 15, 1985 THE STRAIT OF FIRE U.S. Task Group Battles Through Palawan as Asia Erupts By Tony Lau, Staff Correspondent, Singapore Bureau The first hint that Southeast Asia had become the newest front in the widening global conflict a month after its outbreak came not from the burning skyline of Singapore…
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My Not-So ‘Glorious Fourth’: The Semiquincentennial That Fizzled
Sunday, July 5, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s already early afternoon here in my corner of Central Florida on this post-America 250 Sunday, and the weather is making its best impression of a steam room with palm trees. It’s a classic Florida summer day: hot, sticky, and flirting with rain. Right now, it’s…
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America at 250: Beyond the Powdered Wig Myth
Saturday, July 4, 2026 – Orlando, Florida “When in the Course of human events…” With those words, the Continental Congress introduced a document that would reshape the world — not by creating a nation overnight, but by declaring that the old bonds between Britain and its colonies had finally snapped. Setting the Stage Hi, everyone.…
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Heat, History, and the Trouble With America at 250
Saturday, May 16, 2026 — Orlando, Florida It is a torrid late‑spring day in Central Florida. As I write this, it’s just past one in the afternoon, and the heat outside is, in a word, oppressive. The temperature sits at 90°F (32°C) under partly sunny skies. With a southeast wind at 8 mph (13 km/h)…
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Sunshine, Suspense, and Silkworm Missiles
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in ACX, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon UK, Audible, Audiobooks, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age, Stefan (Steve) Lee, Triassic Games, Winter in FloridaSaturday, February 21, 2026 — Orlando, Florida Hello, Dear Reader. Late winter in Central Florida is showing off today. As I write this, the morning sun is pouring through my window, the temperature sits at a pleasant 77°F (25°C), and MSN Weather promises we’ll climb to 85°F (30°C) by midafternoon. If there’s a better way…
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Book Review: ‘The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis’
The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis By: Robert Smith Thompson Publisher: Simon & Schuster Year of Publication: 1992 🧨 Revisionism Run Amok: A Look at Robert Smith Thompson’s The Missiles of October History, especially the kind still warm to the touch, is a fragile thing.…
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Book Review: ‘World War II: America at War 1941-1945’
World War II: America at War 1941-1945 Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar Publisher : Random House Publication date : October 12, 1991 World War II: America at War 1941–1945 — A Richly Layered Reference to a Defining Global Conflict The Second World War was not merely a chapter in history—it was the…
