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Searching for honesty in national media
If a modern-day Diogenes were to search for honesty in the mainstream media, he would need barrels of lamp oil. Diogenes the Cynic was an ...
Michael Henry, Author at The Oxford Eagle
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Mueller mountain births Papadopoulos mouse
“The Mountain in Labour” is one of the fables credited to the Greek storyteller Aesop in the 6th Century BCE. “The Mountain in Labour” was ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, September 12, 2018 8:19 am
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Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are Kabuki television
Japan’s Kabuki theater tradition is over four-centuries-old. Kabuki performers are heavily made up, ornately dressed and engage at a snail’s pace in a highly stylized ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 8:18 am
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When the IRS plays politics, you pay for it
Articles in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post recently detailed how the government has agreed to pay $3.5 million ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:03 am
Columns
The deep state has deep roots
This country’s 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, led the nation through the Roaring Twenties, a time of social upheaval and rapidly changing mores. The United States ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10:37 am
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Portland: “Lord of the Flies” redux
The occupation of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office for five weeks in June and July, and a violent confrontation between anarchist groups ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:58 am
Columns
Socialism plus ignorance: A toxic mix
Last month’s victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, in New York City’s 14th Congressional District Democrat primary over 10-term incumbent and Democrat Caucus Chair Joe Crowley ...
by Michael Henry, Tuesday, July 31, 2018 5:56 pm
Columns
Mass Hysteria: The left melts down
One of the unfortunate byproducts of the dumbing down of America is the increased susceptibility of the populace to mass hysteria. Mass or collective hysteria ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:08 am
Columns
Lone federal judge controls U.S. Immigration for nine months
In October 2017, Federal District Judge Derrick Kahala Watson, appointed by then-President Barack Obama in 2013, issued a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s travel ...
by Michael Henry, Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:31 am
Columns
How is the NCAA vs. Ole Miss like Mueller vs. Trump?
Steven Godfrey’s excellent May 30 piece in SBNation, “Crooked Letters,” is an even-handed analysis of the NCAA’s gross mishandling of its 6-year investigation into Ole ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 10:19 am
Columns
Hasn’t mankind already killed enough Jews?
On the few occasions when Iran has taken a break from chanting “death to America,” it tells the world it is going to drive all ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:55 am
Columns
Dialing for dollars in The Swamp
It is estimated that Hillary Rodham Clinton spent $2 billion in her failed bid for the presidency. Money spent on political campaigns seems to increase ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 8:02 am
Columns
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime
Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 2:49 pm
Columns
Black Robe Fever
Lawyers with active practices in the federal system are familiar with “black robe fever.” It’s a virulent disease that strikes some attorneys when they are ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:16 pm
Columns
James Comey channels Walter Mitty
James Thurber’s short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,”was first published in 1939 in The New Yorker. Walter Mitty is a world-class day-dreamer. He’s ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:04 am
Columns
The Swamp strikes back
Disgraced FBI chief James Comey’s tortured explanation of his bizarre official conduct before and after the 2016 election aptly reflects the murky atmosphere in The ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:00 am
Columns
As technology advances, politics and law retreat
The speed at which information is available is difficult to comprehend. Like magic, an e-mail, text or breaking news appears on our devices in a ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:30 pm
Columns
Schizophrenic governments
It is estimated that at least one-third of the homeless in the United States suffer from some form of serious mental illness. Schizophrenia, paranoia, and ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:37 pm
Columns
Toxic swamp gas produces baseline budgeting
Last Wednesday, Senate and House of Representatives leaders in Washington agreed on a $1.3 trillion spending bill two days before an impending government “shutdown.” Like ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:30 am
Columns
Two Davids: Conversions on the Road to Damascus
By Michael Henry David Horowitz and David Mamet, two powerhouse American intellectuals and brilliant writers, each had a “Saul on the Road to Damascus” moment ...
by Michael Henry, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:35 am
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Liberalism requires a willing suspension of disbelief
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the Romantic Movement in English poetry, defined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his “Biographia Literaria” (1817) as ...
by Michael Henry, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 2:27 pm
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