Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘William Butler Yeats’

Gunship from the future is being used in Syria today

The Germans invented the gunship in World War I. This armored aircraft had machine guns mounted to fire downward at a 45-degree angle. Gunships flew along trenches at treetop level, all six machine guns pouring fire on the men below. During the Vietnam War, the Americans created the AC-47. The circular orbit or pylon turn…

 

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Why I’ve never had an agenda

In my senior year of college in Portland, Oregon, a group of friends and I went to an all-you-can-eat brunch buffet at a Chinese restaurant every Sunday morning. It was there that a guy named Mike christened me a “convictionless amoeba” for not have an agenda. I laughed for hours. That was exceptional use of…

 

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The greatest deception operation in human history?

Is the nuclear deal with Iran actually the greatest deception operation ever executed? I’m not saying I believe that, but I read something today that made me wonder. First, under any rubric, the nuclear deal is impossible to defend. 1. All limitations on the amount of uranium Iran can enrich will expire in the future….

 

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