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Marty Dahlman
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Retired teacher and coach, a "blue spot" in a red sea, and now, an essayist on "Our America".
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Here's the latest essay on Our America: Project 2029 (Part the First). Here's what Democrats/Progressives/Liberals need to do now!!

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Project 2029 – Part the First : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Unalterable Change In an essay last week, “It’s Getting Near Christmas”, I proposed that Progressive/Democrats (or, my favorite label, Liberals) follow the example of our right-wing fellow citizens.  ...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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here's the latest essay on Our America. It's four days after the EPSTEIN FILES were supposed to be released. Who does the Trump Administration think they're fooling???

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Who Ya’ Fooling? : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
What About The Department of Justice is already four days late.  The law requires all of the EPSTEIN FILES released by December 19th, 2025.  It’s now December 23rd (I checked the Advent Calendar), and...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America: "It's Getting Near Christmas". Opponents to the current Administration better be making a list, and checking it twice!!!!

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: Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Getting Near Christmas My favorite “sad” Christmas song – James Taylor’s version of Joni Mitchell’s – River Christmas Week It’s Christmas week, 2025.  This week is always a time of family, food, Great...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America. If we follow the policies of the 1920's, will we get the outcomes of the 1930's and 40's???

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Our Hey-Day : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Changing America My grandfather was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, and died there in 1967.   He was a sports editor for the Cincinnati Post; an expert on horse racing.  Being an expert, by the way,...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America. Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their home. Here's what the President had to say...

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With Malice : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
American Standard I didn’t laugh when Charlie Kirk died.  And I didn’t crow either.  No one should die at the end of a rifle barrel, or on the tip of a blade.  Even those that I oppose politically and...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - it's been a violent weekend in America - and our answer is just more talk.

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Just Talk : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Random Violence We are America.  We are awash in violence.  If one more media commentator uses the phrase “unspeakable” to describe these actions, I may fracture the screen.  It’s not “unspeakable”.  ...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - The Trump Administration is trying to "Shut the Front Door" to foreign tourists.

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Shut the Front Door : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
New Rules The Customs and Border Protection Division (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security has proposed new rules for examining visitors to the United States – all visitors to the United States...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - the New Prohibition. Oh, and kids in Australia can't read this!!!!

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The New Prohibition : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
The saying goes:  History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.   Perhaps Mark Twain said it.  That’s a small historic controversy;  if he didn’t, he should have.   Need a Drink? History has amp...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - we kill remotely. Is it a game or is it real???

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Video-Game : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Zombies Back in the 2010’s (is that how you say it?) I was still working at the school, and I had a high school senior boy living with me.  He, and his friends, were “hooked” on video games.  The dinn...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - they caught the "shadow bomber" of Washington DC - I think?????

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Shadow Bomber : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Caught They caught the “shadow” person who left improvised explosive devices in Washington, DC, in the pre-dawn hours before the January 6th Insurrection.  Nothing pleases me more.  It was a unique “u...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - Religion comes to school in Ohio

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Teaching Religions : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
An Act of the Ohio Legislature It’s called “The Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act”, carefully inserted  between lines 375 to 536 of the “regular” education finance legislation annually passed by the ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - the US isn't the "good guys" anymore...

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White Hats : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Cowboy Movies I am “old”; approaching the Biblical definition of “old”; three score and ten.  I grew up in the 1960’s.  But even as old as I am, I was a little bit past the age of the “cowboy movies”....
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December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - a "Sunday Story", about gas prices and the "old days".

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Gas War : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
So here’s a “Sunday Story” – about gas prices and the “old days”.  The Bubble Woo Hoo!! Here in the “Amazon Bubble” of high gas prices, I “scored”.   As I drove by the local United Dairy Farmer, there...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America. Two National Guardsmen shot in Washington. Who's to blame (they aren't).

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Circles  : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Targets Up front:  there’s never an excuse to “gun down” anyone.  The two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington on Wednesday were not “legitimate” targets for any kind of protest.  They were Amer...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America. Three political issues you might have missed this weekend.

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Political Hits : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Three issues came up this weekend that are much more “political” than “real”.   Peace in Our Time The first:  the so-called US peace plan for Ukraine.  This twenty-eight point plan was accepted by Pre...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - fissures in the MAGA wall!!

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The Orange Wall : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Lame Duck It looks like a wall, not the porous border wall, but a big, beautiful, orange tinted wall.  While Democrats traditionally are divided, easily accused of being a “circular firing squad”, the...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - It's a big deal if the government alters a Grand Jury decision.

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A Grand Jury : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Amendment V – United States Constitution No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury… Taking the Fifth (and Sixt...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Here's the latest on Our America - why do we need to know about the Epstein Files? It's about bad judgment, and bad advice.

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Bad Advice : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Harvard Larry Summers, the former Secretary of the Treasury and ex-President of Harvard, is stepping back from his “public roles”.  He plans (hopes) to  maintain his “private role” as a professor at H...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - about speaking the truth in the classroom - it's against the law!!

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Speaking Truth : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Go Bucks I live just twenty miles from “The Shoe”, the horseshoe shaped stadium where THE Ohio State University football team annually competes for National recognition.  Ohio State has a tremendous i...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - Trump claims he's reducing the deficit - and I've got a bridge to sell you too!!!!

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Buy a Bridge : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Post-Truth During World War II there was a huge influx of young, rural American men into New York City.  They were there enroute to the battlefields of Europe, and they marveled at the miles of skyscr...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Here's a "late breaking" essay about Donald Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein.

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Twisting in the Wind : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Not Me!!!! President Trump just announced that the Justice Department will be “probing” the relationship between deceased billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and a host of Democrats.  They include ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Veterans Day - Here's why

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Veteran’s Day : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
The Eleventh Hour “Hostilities will be stopped on the entire front beginning at 11 o’clock, November 11th (French hour). The Allied troops will not go beyond the line reached at that hour on that date...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America. Is the latest "deal" in the Senate a Democratic failure or victory??

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Out of the Jaws : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Bad Week Last Tuesday Democrats began their electoral comeback.  The election results in many parts of the Nation, from New Jersey to California to Mississippi, were overwhelmingly in the Democrat’s f...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - about "election music"

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Welcome Back America : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Special Report When I was a kid, the “NBC Special Report” logo and music held a special terror.  From the time I was six, a “Special Report” meant risk or tragedy.   And that was all when I was younge...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Here's the latest essay on Our America - and the shutdown goes on...

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Fiddling Around : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life
Fall of Rome There is an apocryphal story about the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire.  Long before Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 AD, the story goes that Emperor Nero was so oblivio...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM