Author: Michael Henry | The Oxford Eagle

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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, ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Mass Hysteria: The left melts down

One of the unfortunate byproducts of the dumbing down of America is the increased susceptibility of the populace ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Dialing for dollars in The Swamp

It is estimated that Hillary Rodham Clinton spent $2 billion in her failed bid for the presidency. Money ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Black Robe Fever

Lawyers with active practices in the federal system are familiar with “black robe fever.” It’s a virulent disease ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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The Swamp strikes back

Disgraced FBI chief James Comey’s tortured explanation of his bizarre official conduct before and after the 2016 election ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Schizophrenic governments

It is estimated that at least one-third of the homeless in the United States suffer from some form ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more