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President Trump: Hope Beyond Hoping?
‘Can we not have a moment when we say, “Okay, this is what we wanted back then; this is what we hoped for; this is what we went to bed praying for…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
‘It is because this was their fascist moment, and Trump was not merely taking it away from them, but actually explicitly indicting it. They were losing…
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Through the Looking Glass (1)
This is where we stand now, in all our once free societies, where government is primarily focussed on the business of censoring without sign and…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
They’re all working from scripts! Wasn’t it convenient that there was an ‘anonymous’ Israeli source willing to blab about his boss’s capitulation to…
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On The James Conway Experience, December 31st, 2024
'Money is only paper. The payment is always in something else that is never mentioned — it’s the loss of something. And in this case it’s the loss of…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
It's not impossible to imagine Donald Trump sitting at a table with representatives of the Combine at Mar-a-Lago and laying out for them what he is…
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Father of the Nation, speak!
In view of the moral collapse of the Oireachtas, and the Presidency in the time of Higgins, Michael McDowell now stands as the de facto moral leader of…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
Then the thought struck me: the pseudo-reality has become real; it has replaced reality to the point of becoming it. There is no other reality, or at…
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December 2024

Inside Mount Melleray (2014): ‘The World As You Know It is Passing Away’
'The point of the words is to go beyond words into a formless, imageless, wordless prayer. Prayer is a form of watching, waiting, listening, more than…
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Diary of a Dissenter: Christmas Week From My Window
Musk is an ambiguous figure in this context, and his charger is not white, nor even a horse, but something like a zebra, either black with hopeful white…
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3 Christmas(sy) Conversations
'And you, my father, there on the sad height/ Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray/ Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage…
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Advent Adhortations II
Of the two possibilities — God or no God — only one serves my need. I have therefore two good reasons for adhering to its logic: it is useful and it…
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