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October 5, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tactus speaks: The Delicate Matter of Reinforcing Failure

Of the great Democrat entitlement programs, the most recent – Obamacare – is by far the least popular and has been by far the quickest to fail. I’ll start the tale with this from Powerline: In 2013, millions of Americans received notices informing them that their existing health insurance plan would disappear once Obamacare’s major […]

October 5, 2016 Vic Socotra

Marlow’s Coastal Empire: Matthew

Tybee Island is a barrier island in Chatham County, Georgia, eighteen miles east of Savannah. The island is the easternmost point in the state of Georgia. A meeting of Chatham County and Tybee Island city leaders was held last night inside of Tybee’s City Hall regarding Category 4 Hurricane Matthew. The meeting was surprisingly closed-door […]

October 4, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus on Article 5

Is There Another Way? Maybe. Some of you know a great deal more about this subject that I do, but I’ll give it a try using this article from the American Thinker: Regardless of the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, our republic needs a powerful redress against the unconstitutional usurpation of power by the […]

October 4, 2016 Vic Socotra

Yahoo! – Marlow’s Coastal Empire

Flying from Atlanta to Savannah affords the sharp eyed airline passenger with a unique view of one of Georgia’s major rivers. This river ends at the city that took its name. Recent research says that the river’s and city’s name came from a group of Shawnee who migrated to the Georgia Piedmont region in the […]

October 3, 2016 Vic Socotra

One Charlie

Here in the Old Dominion we have early voting, something that does not happen in the morning, but rather up to 45 days prior to the General Election we can sashay into the local registrar’s office and cast our ballot if we meet one or more of seventeen official excuses. In Virginia, you may apply […]

October 3, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus on STEM

About Inventors Why are most inventors men? That’s an interesting question. Here’s what PBS thinks the answer is: For 226 years men led the US Patent and Trademark Office, the agency that fosters American innovation and entrepreneurship. Enter Michelle Lee, the agency’s first female leader. Michelle Lee is not only the first woman to head […]

October 3, 2016 Vic Socotra

Arias Speaks: Deplorable and Stupid

Editor’s Note: The famed orator and philosopher Arias joins us this morning to point out some foibles of the Ruling Class- widely acknowledged by themselves as the smartest people in the room. See what you think. Vic Arias Speaks: Deplorable and Stupid Mrs. Clinton, in a statement she later retracted (though one suspects with some […]

October 2, 2016 Vic Socotra

The Path to Space

I am at the farm, so far successfully avoiding the prospect of hacking at the foliage that has- perhaps- obstructed the line-of-site from the dish on the side of the house to the Direct TV satellite hanging in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles deep in the southern sky. The low gray clouds may have sapped a […]

October 2, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: Anticipating the PRI

Editor’s Note: This morning’s outing with the famed Roman rhetorician attempts to come to grips with the implications of the Obama legacy. The essay mines a concept also articulated this morning by Angelo M. Codevilla, a naval officer, Foreign Service Officer and senior fellow at the Claremont institute. His essay “After the Republic” discusses where […]

October 1, 2016 Vic Socotra

Camponos!

Editor’s Note: There is a bumper crop of content at the website this morning. Concluding a three-part Coastal Empire series, a Tacitus essay and a restaurant review from The Daily. Enjoy! – Vic It is all unlikely, in this most unlikely season in an unlikely teen-aged Century. I find myself at the Farm, having parked […]

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