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October 11, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Last Words, First Draft

This will be a perspective piece delivered in the first person. It will not be a hit and run job with a third person zinger or revelation shoehorned in some out of the way corner of the article. Will it be witty? Wise? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps pithy but most of all, hopefully, a coherent […]

October 11, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: The Initial Nuclear Exchange

On Friday the Clinton campaign launched a single nuke. The aim was to decapitate the Trump campaign, to personally destroy candidate Trump, and to send a message to any other outsider who might in the future even think about challenging the leftist status quo. Probably the weapon was released earlier than originally planned. It was […]

October 11, 2016 Vic Socotra

Que Sera

(This image doesn’t really have much to do with the following hard-hitting analysis, but it may be one of the few times I am completely sympatico with our former Chief Execuive. He has apparently been told that the Borg are in the cloak-room, and they want him to drop his shields Image courtesy of AP). […]

October 11, 2016 Vic Socotra

A Matter of Honor: Special Agents and the VA

As you may have seen last week, former Director of Naval intelligence Tom Brooks came to me with a heartbreaking story of a man who gave all for his country, and for whom his country has done exactly nothing. It is baffling to me that the system could treat a hero this way. I asked […]

October 10, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: The False Prophet

I’m going to take a Sunday break from presidential politics. Not because there’s nothing happening – very much the opposite – but because it’s moving too fast and too unpredictably for me to follow. I’ll take stock again on Monday. Instead I offer you this from the Telegraph: Dire predictions that the Arctic would be […]

October 9, 2016 Vic Socotra

Arias on Politics: A Man (and Woman) for One Season

Would you vote for a candidate who said: “I personally believe the following is wrong, but I’ll do it anyway if you vote for me!” In an Oscar winning performance from 1966, a hero states that: “…when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by […]

October 9, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: Seeking the Assassin’s Mace

The October Surprises are coming, you know, fast and furious. The first shot came from the Democrats (naturally). The New York Times published an illegal release of Mr Trump’s 2001 state tax filings – or the first pages thereof. The documents show that he had declared a massive loss for that year. This is completely […]

October 9, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Picnic in the Park

Perfect weather, patriotic music and plenty of BYO food and drink drew tens of thousands to a picnic at Forsyth Park this past Sunday. As with all things now, this annual event had a theme – “Under the Stars and Stripes.” Consequently, many picnickers sported red, white and blue to enjoy music, competed for prizes […]

October 9, 2016 Vic Socotra

A Matter of Honor: Special Agents and the VA

As you may have seen last week, former Director of Naval intelligence Tom Brooks came to me with a heartbreaking story of a man who gave all for his country, and for whom his country has done exactly nothing. It is baffling to me that the system could treat a hero this way. I asked […]

October 8, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: Of Propaganda and Prudence

Yesterday I mentioned that the goddess Gaia – she of global warming and climate change – was a part of the new official pantheon. Well, she’s been in the news of late. As I write this on Friday afternoon Hurricane Matthew is brushing the east coast of Florida, causing a great deal of excitement. Or, […]