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Surgery on literature is 21st century's fig leaf on a statue   By James Terminiello A nationally-known publisher has decided to edit certain language in the novels of the late P.G. Wodehouse due to some indelicate words that were deemed "unacceptable" to today's readers. (1) On the surface, this could be considered non-news. Quite the contrary. This is an utter disgrace, a violation of an artists product, and a danger to our culture and history. It is also quite silly. For those who know nothing of Wodehouse, he was the author of a veritable library of light and fluffy novels, the best featuring two amazing characters: Jeeves, a brilliant, loyal, elegant, and savvy gentleman's gentleman who served Bertie Wooster - a likeable but eminently daft British upper class twit. In sum, Bertie gets in and Jeeves gets him out of trouble in a never-never land version of England of the early 20th century. It is all as light and delectable as a well-crafted and serenely seasone

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Trump Fails The Dictator Test By James Terminiello Lenin. Now that's a dictator! In the Democrat Party's increasingly desperate quest to divert attention from the sitting president's abysmal record, they have now spun their counter-offsensive wheel and landed on:  Portray Trump As A Future Dictator. Dutifully, the many Democrat operatives in the unbiased media are wringing their hands in fear and trepidation that should Trump grab hold of the oval office, the chains of dictatorship will envelope the country like a cobra and all will be lost! (Ruffle brow on cue for the camera please)  Trouble is: Trump already served four years as president and the republic not only stood, it prospered. And freedom rang! Here are some of the actions of this "dictator". He was impeached ... twice! Yet none of his prosecutors were lined up against the wall and shot. He was accused of selling the nation out to the Russians. When that house of cards tumbled no one went to jail. He low

Migrants and Medicaid – The Not-So-Hidden Costly Consequences     By James Terminiello     Full disclosure first: I have a 35-year-old son, permanently disabled at age 3, who receives Medicaid... for the moment.     Following a toss-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater strategy, the federal government is revisiting all those on Medicaid as part of the “unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment program” that extended coverage to a considerable swath of people during the pandemic. (1) The fact that my son and many others like him qualified for and received Medicaid years before COVID-19 reared its ugly head seems to be of little relevance. And bureaucracies being the glacially swift entities that they are, my son’s coverage could potentially slip away long before they review his case – which , by the way, is designated with an ominously long ten-digit number.     Running concurrent with this impending slow-motion trainwreck is a national push to extend Medicaid coverage to the ongoi

  Warnings from the Ghost of Christmas Past     By G. C. Past      I am the Ghost of Christmas Past and I manifest each year at this time to give warning to those who commit unpardonable seasonal transgressions that a more forgiving deity might, and I say might , overlook.      Hear me and reform, lest I haunt you to your air-parched, terminal breath.      Place not on thy innocent lawn those hideous inflatable yuletide decorations. When the blessed sun doth crack the dawn, they deflate and resemble crime scene pools of blood and smashed egg yolks . In short, they infect the eyes! Away with them!     Gift not the decorative wine stopper for it shall be abandoned with lightening haste in early January at your local thrift shop. Many pine away on haunted shelves at this very moment subject to their latest, and not last, re-gifting. Know well that those w ho drink deep of the fermented grape drain each soldier to the last and need not save even a dribble of the dregs for future imbibing.