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Kitchen Rudders Going Full Circle

During The Second World War and in early post-war years, many of the warships visiting Rothesay Bay, The Holy Loch and The Clyde used 'picket' and 'liberty boats' to ferry crews and supplies to and...
  • Clyde Steamers published this 11 / 06 / 2009
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Bread and Circuses

For a person who had come of age during the sixties, these are frightening times indeed. I came of age during the period between the Viet Nam War and Watergate. My first awareness of censorship cam...
  • DrSmith published this 02 / 23 / 2009
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Lipstick on a Pig

There are Republicans and Democrats who will tolerate and even pass on lies - no matter how egregious, obviously false and slanderous - so long as they are targeted against the other side.
  • DrSmith published this 09 / 15 / 2008
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Un-Democratic Governments

The future of the country is in your hands and the hands of your fellow citizens. Posterity will record how well you have served that future.
  • DrSmith published this 09 / 07 / 2008
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Revolutionary Citizenship

The first step on the road to recovering American revolutionary citizenship is to take back the right to free and open speech. If we are unwilling to take that first step then Dr. Franklin is surel...
  • DrSmith published this 09 / 07 / 2008
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Gods and Governments

How amazing it would be to have at least one candidate show the wisdom and courage of the founders and to prove for our time that such courage and wisdom had not died out two centuries ago.
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 31 / 2008
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The Better Angels of Our Nature

If Americans decide that they prefer the gruel and drivel of partisan politics to the fine cuisine that the founders offered us - it they prefer to eat at ‘separate tables’ and divide the house unt...
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 25 / 2008
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Mining the Minutiae - Missing the Meaning

I am appalled at the sorry state of the media these days. It is not just that the ‘media stars’ are no longer reporters - or journalists of any kind, for that matter. They are mostly ‘talk-show-h...
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 18 / 2008
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The Most Successful Presidency Ever

When it comes to war - as the saying goes - ‘amateurs talk strategy while the professionals talk logistics’. That saying seems to apply as well to the current political debate - and clearly most o...
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 16 / 2008
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The Vote That Counts

These days it seems that the federal government is primarily in the business of distributing the taxpayers’ credit to the supporter of the political party in power.
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 14 / 2008
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Innovation - Post-Modernist Evolutions

Back when I was writing my doctoral thesis the idea that the world was moving from a modernist to a post-modernist paradigm was mostly limited to philosophers. The post-modernist thinkers - mostly...
  • DrSmith published this 08 / 11 / 2008
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It's Time to Kill the Beast

The 2008 election cycle may present us with a once in a lifetime opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the tendency towards negativity in American political campaigns. As it looks now, we may be pres...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 31 / 2008
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Accountability and Responsibility - Part Two

Americans have lost control over the use of the national credit card. As a result their children’s future - and the future of the nation - is being heavily mortgage to interests outside of the coun...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 29 / 2008
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Accountability and Responsibility Part One

Our society is under attach by an insidious disease which is eating away the very roots of our culture and government - and the current crop of sitting politicians - republicans, democrats and inde...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 29 / 2008
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The Rule of Law

At the very center of the American Republic rests an idea which was thought radical at the time the Founders wove it into the design for our government.
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 27 / 2008
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Thoughts Out of Season

We live in dangerous times - dangerous not because of the prevailing wisdom about terrorists and nuclear weapons. The reasons are far more fundamental and far more pervasive than those provincial t...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 26 / 2008
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Two Roads Diverged

As someone who came of age during the activism of the 60s, I have watched with amazement the rather successful attempts at domestication of the American electorate over the last four decades.
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 26 / 2008
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The Conservative’s Tragedy

We are living through a time which has brought tragedy to both political parties. In this piece I want to focus on the one which has all but consumed the Republican Party. After a brief discussion ...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 20 / 2008
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An American Tragedy

Towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century it is easy to lose track of the motivations which lead Europeans to make the difficult and dangerous journey across the Atlantic and to a new...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 17 / 2008
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The Price of Liberty

There is a difference between freedom and liberty which seems to be lost on the current generations of Americans. For many the words seem to be synonymous. But nothing could be farther from the tru...
  • DrSmith published this 07 / 16 / 2008
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