Homeland Invasion: Update 09-24-2025 – Chuck Fager Recent scenes from the front: — A combat vet protesting Chicago ICE raids, emerging from a thick cloud of their tear gas, unmasked & unruffled, bearing a large American flag. — A fullsized, full-color roadside billboard near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, … Continue reading Homeland Invasion Update: 09-26-2025
The opening: “You Think You’ve Seen ‘Shock & Awe’”?? (Trump posted this AI fantasy on Truth Social early Saturday) “The president offered no details beyond the label “Chipocalypse Now,” a play on the title of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian 1979 film set in the Vietnam war, in which a character says: “I love the smell … Continue reading It’s “War”?? Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” — Day One
Revelation on Rose Street New York City – A Fine Autumn Day in 1843 I was still feeling a bit weak that first Day morning, after several days in bed with a bilious fever. But I was now better, and the weather in New York was fair. My good wife agreed that a walk to … Continue reading Resistance Vacation Reading #3 — Revelation On Rose Street — And the Fate of Religious Radicals
This “billboard” is meant to be the first of a series in the runup to the June 14 “NO KINGS” protests. The strategy of the series is to widen the gap between Trump-Hegseth (TH) and many troops, and remind them (and others watching) that their oath is to defund the Constitution (not a wannabe monarch). … Continue reading For June 14: Don’t Miss This Big Chance to Find Allies Among the Troops (We Need Them.)
2025 has been a tough year for small colleges in the Carolinas. Two have closed, a third is in what looks like death throes, and then there’s a fourth on the brink, which we’ll get to in a minute. Down and out are St. Andrews, in Laurinburg, a hundred miles southwest of Raleigh in Scotland … Continue reading Guilford College: On the Brink