DENNIS PATRICK: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
We survived November 1st and the end of Daylight Savings Time (DST) with no ill effects, except the bruised egos of those who forgot to adjust. DST represents a bi-partisan…...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: A “LITERARY” HALLOWEEN
In the hideous death of some literary figures may be found a semblance of the ghastly, the grisly, and the gruesomeness of Halloween. But, in the modern day, in a…...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
DENNIS M. PATRICK: AUTUMN AT LAST!
Finally -- it’s autumn. It’s officially, deliciously autumn. Three cheers for the season! This is my time of year. I have an ongoing love affair with autumn. Why do I…...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: WHY THE HATRED FOR TRUMP?
Fact checkers – start your computers! Evidently the media, Democrat power brokers, and assorted “moderate” Republicans are poisoned by their hatred for President Trump. Their many failures to exorcise him…...
Thursday, October 08, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: ON A VERY PERSONAL NOTE
Of all seasons, autumn I love best. Time advances beyond the heat of summer to the cool evenings of fall before eventually morphing to the bleak days of winter. The…...
Friday, September 25, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: VOTE BY MAIL?
With the 2020 elections upon us, many have heard the pros and cons of voting by mail. To clarify, absentee voting requires the citizen to proactively request a ballot and…...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: NARCISSUS LIVES
Through their mythology the ancient Greeks explained the world in which humankind lived. It became a way of integrating their values into everyday life. So it is with the…...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: DO AS I SAY – NOT AS I DO
Rules for thee – but not for me. So declare the elite before Trump broke up their party. What the left proclaims, pontificates, and bloviates about befits the…...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: WHO’S IS FUNDING THE HATE?
We’ve watched Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) thugs (accurate term) burn and loot major US cities in the name of “social justice.” In response, city officials backed away and…...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: BIG DEBT? YOU BET!
Starting in March, the US Treasury ramped up its borrowing by $3 trillion in the form of bills, notes, and bonds to pay for relief from the coronavirus shutdown. Congress…...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: THE SOCIAL LUBRICANT OF CONVERSATION
There was a time when good conversation existed as an art form. The give and take in badinage resembled a thing of beauty. As wit matched wit, and remark elicited…...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: PIECES OF GOOD NEWS FILTER THROUGH
Every now and then a ray of sunshine breaks through the dark clouds of media partiality and prejudice. The light of day cannot be suppressed forever. What follows illustrates good…...
Thursday, July 30, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: HEROES OF BLACK LIVES MATTER
Currently the focus on justice centers on lives ending violently with police encounters. The narrative explicitly focuses on black lives to the exclusion of all other occurrences as if that…...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: SUMMER SHUTDOWN READING
Summertime 2020 is Covid-19 sequestration time and a good time to catch up on books new and old. What I am reading (and re-reading) I can recommend to others. A…...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: AMERICA BACK IN CHAINS WITH SLAVE TALK
The sordid history of slavery spans the history of the human race. Blacks alone do not bear the stigma of this vile practice. Historically, Whites have been sold as…...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: UMP TRUMP CABAL
Question: What do King Louis XIII of France and Czar Nicholas II of Russia have in common? While contemplating the answer, the next few paragraphs will provide insight. …...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: THE MOB: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ANTIFA
Top story of the year? The riots and mayhem of 2020 incited by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa under the pretext of “peaceful demonstrations.” The liberal left progressively…...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: A COVID SKEPTIC
Stop! No misunderstandings, please! To be clear, a skeptic is NOT someone who imprudently either believes or disbelieves a particular argument. A skeptic IS someone who retains doubts about…...
Friday, June 19, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: WHAT ABOUT “SOCIAL JUSTICE?”
Economist Benjamin A. Rogge referred to the statue Lady Justice: “The blindfolded Goddess of Justice has been encouraged to peek and she now says, ‘First tell me who you are…...
Friday, June 12, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: THEY’RE SICK—INFLAMMATION OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM
As riots descend on American cities, suddenly social justice trumps social distancing as the cause-of-the-day. Confused? Let’s explore. Amazing. Fifty years after passage of the 1964 Civil…...
Thursday, June 04, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: RE-THINKING RED CHINA
Interest in China has skyrocketed ever since President Trump broke out of the globalist mold and engaged China on trade and military issues. To gain an understanding of how…...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: TRUMP DERANGEMENT…..MENTAL ILLNESS?
As understood by many, hate triggers harmful effects. Aside from destructive physiological injury, hate may lead to derangement, a state of being mentally incapacitated unable to think or act…...
Thursday, May 21, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS
The “get Trump” effort never ends. The undercurrent runs throughout the bits and pieces of news, news conferences, and interviews. View the scene as a montage of events. Despite…...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: SUMMER SUNSHINE SOLILOQUY
It happened again! On May 6 I underwent my fourth Mohs surgery for skin cancer. The basal cell, located in the middle of my forehead, was easily treated. With…...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: QUARANTINED WITH A BIBLE
A time of lockdown offers plenty of time to read and ponder the age-old teachings of the Bible. Time spent reflecting on the wisdom in the Scripture is time…...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: SAME SONG, SECOND VERSE (WON’T GET BETTER; IT HAS TO GET WORSE)
Some things never change. As the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes points out, “There is no new thing under the sun.” Long before Trump became president and…...
Friday, April 24, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: COVID-19(84)
Who knew? Seventy-one years after George Orwell penned his novel 1984 the United States would devolve into Orwell’s prototype in the name of “public health and safety.” Nineteen Eighty-Four…...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: IS CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE?
The Wuhan flu, Chinese flu, coronavirus, covid-19 or whatever you wish to call it is a bad illness. Many patients survive, some with lasting effects. Other folks succumb.…...
Monday, April 20, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: CORONAVIRUS – A CONTRARIAN VIEW
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the White House during prickly Coronavirus Task Force debates. Drs. Anthony Fauci, Deborah Brix, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams are…...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: IS CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE?
The Wuhan flu, Chinese flu, coronavirus, covid-19 or whatever you wish to call it is a bad illness. Many patients survive, some with lasting effects. Other folks succumb. …...
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