Category: EDITORS DESK
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EQUALITY – WITH ALL “DELIBERATE” SPEED?
We have made a national holiday to celebrate the freedom of slaves after the Civil War. We have legislation on the Hill that could protect persons of color…
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Letter from The Plains - June 2021
In the first five months of the Biden Administration the United States has moved positively and effectively back to its “Alliance Roots”. In so doing the…
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Hearing the wind blow
Hearing the wind blow called me back to a time in my youth. Standing on a beach with the wind blowing on my face, much as it did on Mars today. My eyes trained…
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TRUMP-GIULIANI AGONISTES - BLUE
Trump and Giuliani appear unable to conquer their shared self-pity and despair, and so, drawing upon art and biblical myth, we may conclude that, unlike…
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Welcome to the New Venezuela
America has for over 200 years been that shining city on the hill, the envy of the world where the freedom to speak and think for oneself was the birthright of…
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Letter From the Plains
Eccentric readers do not need to be reminded that Tuesday, November 3, is a “Moment in Time,” not just for American citizens, but for the rest of the Planet,…
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Oppose the Banbury Cross Development - LETTER
There is no better time than now to speak up against Loudoun’s suburban sprawl. As housing developments encroach westward, the few remaining small towns and…
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TRUMP LOSES IN THE SUPREME COURT – but not entirely - BLUE
Mr. Donald Trump is not “absolutely immune” from N.Y. DA Cyrus Vance’s subpoenas for Trump’s tax records held by a third party so ruled the Supreme Court in a…
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Down the Rabbit Hole - RED
We live in very strange times where a significant segment of our society seems to have fallen into Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole, and now like Alice, live in a…
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Letter From the Plains
In the mid to late 1960s, the mentors who trained me in British Intelligence were distinguished World War Two veterans in the sources and methods of the…
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Proposed Brewery - Letter to the Editor
Middleburg—when is enough enough? The precious countryside surrounding your town is at risk of becoming an outright bar zone, full of weekenders coming out to…
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The Deferred Dream - BLUE
Years ago, in Staten Island, Eric Garner, a black man, was choked to death, suffocated by a police officer. His mother still suffers the indignity that the…
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George Floyd - RED
On March 25th, a white police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes during an arrest, which led to his tragic death. Three fellow officers…
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Letter From the Plains -June 2020
First, let me say that I hope all Eccentric readers and their families and friends are all safe and well in these challenging times. I want to address how the…
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Take a moment
Please take a moment to remember and honor those that made the greatest sacrifice for our freedom. We would not have what we have today, if not for their…
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Letters - Re News of Note & JK Community Farm
I have only once before submitted (10-10-17 Letter to the Editor) and you published my response to an article in the Middleburg Eccentric dating back to Sept.…
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Trump reopens a bleeding wound - BLUE
William Butler Yeats has been quoted with some regularity, first, the phrase, “the center cannot hold,” and, second, how “the best lack all conviction, while…
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COVID, Fear and “Fundamental Transformation” - RED
COVID 19 presents a serious public health menace to our nation, but the fear instilled by our “leaders” and the media seems intentional and without…
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Letter From the Plains
On March 9, 2020 I was privileged to listen to the Director of the National Drug Control Policy (the “Drug Tsar” by another name), James Carroll, and his…
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Letter From the Plains
Since the March Letter, the International Criminal Court (the ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands has come into sharp focus because of various allegations of…