A Nation of Bread and Circuses
‘Our beloved republic is in the hands of madmen’
Julius Caesar to the 13th Legion

By Ladson F. Mills III

merica has reached the stage Roman Historians labeled as the age of ‘Bread and Circuses.’

Toxic projection backed by mobbing now passes for serious political discourse. Decades of disastrous Washington leadership has created a national debt of over twenty trillion dollars. With the bread rapidly disappearing all that remains to divert attention away from the government failures are the circuses of political theater.

One of the most interesting circuses is being provided by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.… Read More

‘Money and morals are rarely on speaking terms.’

By Harry M. Covert
November 28, 2017

as the nation figured out that the country’s real problems lie in the Capitol Building? Apparently lots of citizens have had no clue until lately as leaders’ public and private lives have been bared. Blemishes of the heretofore legislative bodies are laid before the entire 50-states plus all the territories and the world.

Who would have imagined the members of what’s described as the most distinguished club in the world had “no clothes.” That’s the U. S. Senate. Then the brother and sisters of the House of Representatives weren’t excluded from illicit conduct usually reserved for bawdy houses or those described as places of “ill repute.”

Quite naturally pundits use the phrase “double standards.” It’s proper to think that.… Read More

The ‘Manly’ Style of Terrorists

“Terrorists are known principally by their straggly unshaven beards. Part of their murderous sects is that they never shave facial hair. They are known for their religious devotion by never shaving because that is a manly symbol they believe. Let’s stop dancing around the issue plaguing the U.S. society.”

 By Harry M. Covert

he idea of profiling by law enforcement always raises hackles. How dare investigators look for criminals, who act suspicious and when they think no one is watching or when closed circuit video is having a good look?

While bleeding hearts don’t like what the president says about the death penalty for the Big Apple terrorist, or

sending the killer – okay, the alleged admitted killer – to Guantánamo Bay.… Read More

Will the Truth Be Told About that
Fateful Day a Half Century Ago?

By Harry M. Covert

oday may or may not destroy myths and conspiracies of the past 54 years as to the perpetrator of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This awful day when the young 35th chief executive was shot and killed is burned in my heart and mind. I succinctly remember the moment the news blared on my black and white television set.

My two-year-old son was napping. I was scheduled to work at 5 pm. I was watching the television show Dialing for Dollars. The host was crying, barely able to report the shooting in Dallas before the networks interrupted with the incredible story.… Read More

NoKo’s ‘Rocket Man’ is on a Suicide Mission

By Harry M. Covert

ith a strong degree of certainty, I can assure the faithful and newspaper editors across the land that there is no need for 120 point bold headline type along the lines “The World Ends.”

A fellow who has proclaimed himself as a Christian numerologist has gotten his fifteen minutes of idiocy recently by noting the end for planet earth is Saturday. That date is September 23. I’m cynical and a skeptic.

That may well be the day though for North Korea if Kim Jong Un pulls off another missile launch.… Read More