201 years ago, on August 23, 1825, The Marquis de Lafayette visited Warrenton, VA as part of his United States Farewell Tour. 5,000 residents cheered him. They understood how he and France made America’s Independence possible, a contrast to our current president’s attitude about the French.
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My military career was almost over before it began. When I was a First Lieutenant in Germany, our Battalion deployed to Hohenfels for ten days of training. On the last day, it appeared that Spec 4 Moses Saxon III lost his M16, a career killer for the entire chain of command, starting with me.
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Last week, I read in the Wall Street Journal that Mr Trump increased his fortune by $1.4B due to crypto deals. His backers did not do as well. 85% of Trump token buyers are now underwater. Also, if you invested $1,000 on January 19, ‘25 in Trump meme coins your investment is now worth $22.61, a loss of 97.7 percent.
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In February, I wrote a blog about Trump and racism. At the end I said, “I have written several blogs about racism here in America. I have to say, they don’t seem to do much good.” Afterwards, my friend, Andrea Codd, sent me wonderful words of encouragement I would like to share. They are a lesson for all of us.
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Last Tuesday I filled my F250 pickup truck with diesel. Well actually, I didn’t fill it up. The gas pump shut off automatically when it reached $100.00. That was 20 gallons of fuel at $4.99/gallon. I was lucky. The next day, diesel was up to $5.49 at the same station in Marshall, VA.
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“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war“, said our president about our latest attack on Iran. That often happens in war? THAT OFTEN HAPPENS IN WAR!?!? Could he be more tone deaf?
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Writing blogs about Trump is like shooting fish in a barrel. It is too easy. Every day he presents new topics to bust him about. I need to choose wisely, so my blog doesn’t turn into just a Trump report. When he posted a video of the Obamas as apes, that was one bit of racism I couldn’t let go.
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You know the Trump Team is in trouble when they go after women. “Fucking Bitch.” That’s what ICE officer Jonathon Ross called Renee Good after he shot and killed her. Three days later, David Marcus of Fox News said “Organized gangs of wine moms using Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.” On X, conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson called Good an “AWFUL” (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal), adding “progressive whites are turning violent.” And don’t get me started on Hegseth and women in the military.
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It has been a long year for many of us, and yet, I have hope. I believe we may have reached a turning point as 2025 ends. A local Fauquier County MAGA man, as MAGA as they come, has turned on Trump. When someone like him calls Trump a “f^cking piece of sh!t”, you know the world is changing.
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To me, it is pretty simple. If Hegseth did not give the command to kill everybody on the “drug boats”, then someone else, like Admiral Bradley did. Is Hegseth not guilty of this? Fine, then he should bring charges against Bradley, or whoever gave the order, and potentially, the person who pulled the trigger.
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