Category: EDITORIAL COLUMNISTS
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EDITORIAL: Exonerated? Tick. Tock. Blue
On Friday, February 16, the Justice Department announced that evidence presented by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s team had led to the indictment of…
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EDITORIAL: Letters from The Plains
In the fall of 1921 Oxford University established an honors degree course in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, (PPE), to educate and train a post World War…
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The Russians and the Election - RED
Friends with opposing views have asked me to give the conservative perspective of on-going developments in the investigation of Russian meddling in the last…
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EDITORAL: Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! I am pleased to remind readers that I filed for mayor. Town elections are May 1, 2017. I am again appealing to readers to file for the May 1…
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EDITORIAL: Letter from the Plains
Heroin, Opioid, and Narcan are not words in common usage by Eccentric readers, so why should you be interested, indeed concerned? We have a heroine-opioid…
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EDITORIAL: Filing for Mayor - Ask a Council Member
Happy New Year Middleburg! I am pleased to announce here that I formally filed for mayor with the registrar’s office in Leesburg. Town elections are May 1,…
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EDITORIAL: The New Year - and “Preparations of the Heart” - The Public Square
The New Year is a time to lift our gazes. As Solomon said in Proverbs 16: 1, “The preparations of the heart” becomes the answer of the tongue. We get into…
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EDITORIAL: Ignorance, Stupidity, Mistakes, and Lying in the Sciences - A Scientist’s Perspective
These words are extremely important to think about and realize in terms of scientists. In terms of PhD scientists it is almost impossible to find one who is…
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EDITORIAL: Madness - Blue
Monday’s child is fair of face Tuesday’s child is full of grace Wednesday’s child is full of woe Thursday’s child has far to go Friday’s child is loving and…
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EDITORIAL: The “Whirl of the Times” - and Light over Shadow - The Public Square
The Public Square heard one person lately say: “Civilization feels like a thin cross (of law and order) on the top of a volcano.” We are in a strange time…
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EDITORIAL: Vietnam - Red
As a young man, Kurt Vonnegut was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944 and held prisoner in Dresden, where he witnessed the…
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EDITORIAL: SENATOR JILL VOGEL FOR LT. GOVERNOR
It is easy to be cynical about politicians these days - lots of promises without performance. In this political morass of self-serving politicians, Senator…
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EDITORIAL: Hurricanes and Global Warming - A Scientist’s Perspective
The recent spate of powerful hurricanes has increased the discussion of the impact of global warming (no, I’m not going to use the “polite” term of climate…
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EDITORIAL: Ask a Council Member
Hello, Middleburg! The column last month by Vincent Bataoel: “The Next Five Years” alarmed me. In it, he writes his first priority as “… Mayor of Middleburg:…
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EDITORIAL: Bureau of Land Management - Waterworld
When most of us think of public lands we tend to think of national parks and monuments managed by the National Park Service, national forests managed by the U.…
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EDITORIAL: Pax Americana and The Ferris Wheel - The Public Square
August is the month Columbus in 1492 set sail for America and the Pilgrims set forth in 1620 on the Mayflower. Optimistically, “…August hangs at the very top…
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EDITORIAL: Nuclear War - A Scientist’s Perspective
With all of the turbulence about North Korea and nuclear war, I’ve been getting some questions lately about what does nuclear war really mean. My simple answer…
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EDITORIAL: Unequal Justice
The difference in the way the Department of Justice has handled the investigations into Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is an instructive lesson on how…
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EDITORIAL: Thanks, and Farewell - RED
Well, as they used to say on the Mickey Mouse Club … “now it’s time to say goodbye, to all our company.” After nearly five years, your humble correspondent is…
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EDITORIAL: Charlottesville - A Personal View - Blue
On Friday, August 11, 2017, along with millions of others, this writer watched a video of a torchlight parade on and around the grounds of the University of…