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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 13th, 2017
…The four horses of the Apocalypse are running wild on the American plainsIn the last book of the New Testament, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride around the world on their red, white, black, and pale horses representing Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. The rider of the white horse…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 6th, 2017
…Eight of our presidents staffed the White House with slavesSometime in the future we may teach real history, not reality history, not fake history. The truth is eight of our presidents staffed their White House with slaves personally owned by them—and ran a government from a capitol building mainly built…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 30th, 2017
…How you can earn $12 million a year in the United StatesWhen Martin Shkreli, who had raised the price of an AIDS drug called Daraprim 5,000 percent while he was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was arrested for eight counts of unrelated securities fraud, the court found it very difficult to…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2017
…Photo: Wikipedia: Regiment of Armaments surrender Battle of Moscow‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven’ The recent clashes between white supremacists and American ideals actually started hundreds of years ago in the Jewish pogroms of Europe and Russia, and when the first black…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 16th, 2017
…Can we learn anything after we know it all?There’s a 100-page book written by a high school dropout that should be read by all high schoolers, college education students, teachers, and politicians. Michael J.Fox of movie and TV fame wrote his little manifesto, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 2nd, 2017
…When have-it-alls and well-to-doers don’t want to share any of itThere’s a new novel out about the 19th Century Great Potato Famine, when Ireland lost one million of its population of eight million to starvation and disease, and two million to emigration to other countries, including many thousands to the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 19th, 2017
…Three “great leaders” who might really screw up the worldIf you have had a chance to watch documentaries based on North Korean culture you had to notice that all citizens referred to 33-year-old Kim Jong Un as their “Great Leader” in interviews. His picture was always visible whether inside or…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 12th, 2017
…What are the best laid plans for our future?Israeli historian Tuval Noah Harari recently made a fascinating declaration in an article about the future: “People living in the 12th century knew pretty well what the 13th century would be like. Now we are in the first part of the 21st…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 28th, 2017
…How many Americans shot themselves or others today?We won’t know for awhile how many Americans were KIA or WIA from firearms on June 14, when Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise of the House was critically wounded by some of the 71 rounds fired by James Hodgkinson and the police.Actually it…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 14th, 2017
…Red blankets, thousand-dollar pills, and angry IrishIt makes for an interesting week when people, rats, monkeys, and the Irish wave the middle finger with wild abandon toward their erstwhile enemies. The Irish finally showed how fed up they are with the “state” Roman Catholic Church that treated pregnant girls horribly…