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Crazies in Both Parties

Buckley & CS Lewis on this election

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RINO fights!

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This site contains my regular political commentary/humor columns that appear first on the Cautious Optimism Facebook page. In addition, you can see the archive of my published short fiction that has appeared in literary magazines in the US, UK, and Germany.

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