“The military attack against Poland was masterminded by Hitler,” who was “determined to make it look as if the Poles had provoked the hostilities” by “staging numerous false-flag operations and ‘Polish provocations’ against Germans.” “The most infamous of these was the staged attack at...
From the Pali Canon before his enlightenment, the Buddha says: “Before my enlightenment, O monks, while I was still a bodhisattva, it occurred to me: ‘What is the gratification in the world, what is the danger in the world, what is the escape from the world?’ Then it occurred to ...
“Let’s put an instrumental section in the middle and make it longer.” But they insisted on slowing it down. Pete did what he was told and that arrangement doesn’t work 10 beats per minute slower. That’s a lot, whatever that is, going from 90 to 80 beats per minute. It was s...
than it was 2500 years ago when the Buddha walked this earth. The access we have to the Dharma and tools like social media help us overcome some of the impediments we face living the life of a householder vs
the core, which is why the records work so well. Those wouldn’t have been hits with someone else singing it. “Crying” is certainly operatic, but it was not affected. It was not a guy showing off: “Yeah, I can hit that fuckin’ note.” That wasn’t him. That was just him ...
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Gen. 3:6 . . Subsection God...
A key component of Obama’s rise to power is rooted in Chicago, the Jewish breeding ground of Obama’s political career. A prime Jewish patron of Obama’s political ambitions was and remains, Abner Mikva, former Chicago Congressman, Federal judge and White House counsel to Bill Clinton. Mikva...
"REO Speedwagon had moved from Illinois to California. I moved reluctantly. I was born and raised in the Midwest and love it there, and that's where I feel most comfortable. But the band moved so I was gonna go too, but I wanted to really feel the move. So rather than get on a ...
Charles Colson’s Born Again was the most celebrated spiritual memoir of the 1970s evangelical revival, and remains the best-known book-length conversion narrative of the twentieth century. Its account of how Colson—notoriously ruthless as a political a
When I explained that it was the same crappy dung-heap I was driving a few months earlier, but now restored externally, they then all changed their stories to "Oh, we always liked that car." My hot-rod cost me a third of what they paid for their forgettable Japanese appliances, and ...