Tag: Ronald Reagan
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Blaska’s book report
Words are worth fighting over! Blaska did like old people are supposed to do and joined a book club. Composed of some very accomplished people, they let me in anyway. We count former mayors, state legislators, a county executive, a college dean and president, and state agency secretaries. We got a book author, various attorneys,…
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Please don’t take away my keys!
My computer keyboard keys, that is. A particularly insolent field hand remarked that your host is the oldest ever to serve as Head Groundskeeper of Blaska Policy Werkes. So we’ve been looking over our shoulder, ready to fend off would-be alpha males in the herd. While the Catholic Church limits to age 70 the voting…
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Peace means protecting freedoms
Not the absence of war! Happened to catch on C-Span a 1987 speech in Berlin from our greatest President of the last 60 years, Ronald Reagan. No, it wasn’t his “Tear Down This Wall” speech. The occasion was the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city. Two years later, the Berlin Wall would come…
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Will we see Reagan’s like again?
Don’t overthink it! Let’s face it, with 6,000 years of recorded history, every day is an anniversary of something. But pause a moment to reflect that the last great President of the United States of America left office 34 long years ago next January 20. That would be Ronald Reagan, still reviled to this day…