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If you are like me, now and again your man ponders what the January 6 Insurrection at the nation’s capital door might have looked like if the perpetrators were leaders and followers of the Black Lives Movement, rather than white nationalists. I shudder to think of the carnage the world would have been exposed to, … Reality checks help keep in perspective our national truth Read More »

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