For the American Literary Historical Society

The Soapbox 

May 9, 2020

For the American Literary Historical Society 

Witch Hunts' Relevance 

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The Readdressed Essays

New essays under originals. Dramatizing history's repetition.

Re-Addressing began 
October 30, 2015, with the first

Shark Tank May 8, 2012.

August 27, 2012 + ? ? - ? ?, 2020

Even When Not News, President Putin Is The Story Every Day

August 27, 2012 + ? ? - ? ?, 2020

WOW! HOW MUCH FREE SPEECH HAS RUSSIA WON?

August 24, 2012 +  January 15 - ??, 2020

PREMIUM RUSH: A Film About In A Hurry

August 24, 2012 +  December 9 - January 15, 2019

China - Rule By The Numbers Minus People?

August 17, 2012 +  November 11 - December 31, 2019

Why Would Anyone In Line To Be Emperor Have Clothes?

August 21, 2012 +  September 26 - December 3, 2019

Cuban Capitalism On Track To Protect Next Elite

August 17, 2012 +  July 24, - September 25, 2019

Augusta National Noteworthily Accepts Women

August 17, 2012 +  June 20, - July 23, 2019

Two Year Sentence For Stunt Honoring Integrity In Church

August 18, 2012 +  April 8 - July 9, 2019

Little Surprise Julian Assange Knew To Pick: Ecuador

August 15, 2012 +  January 31, - February 20, 2019

Legal Physicians Heal Thyselves?

August 14, 2012 +  January 21, 2019 - February 11, 2019

Despite Claims Has Political Process Ever Cared How We Might Vote?

August 13, 2012 + January 1st - 31st, 2019

Occupy Evicted From Public Bank Pedestrian Cement Park

August 10, 2012 +  December 17, 2018 - January 15, 2019

Politics Make A Difference, When?

August 9, 2012 +  November 17 - December 19, 2018

The Political Myth Of The Modern Mind

August 8, 2012 +  November 1 - December 11, 2018

Supposed KREMLIN Foe Literally Invites EVERYONE In To Have Fun Feeling Liberated

August 7, 2012 +  October 4 - November 7, 2018

Oh Dear, Doctors Put Profit Ahead Of Patient Care?

August 6, 2012 + September 18, 2018 - September 12, 2019

Editorialist Weighs Value Of Open Secrecy

& MURPHY BROWN

July 30, 2012 +  September 5 - October 7, 2018

Individual Cop Blamed For Department Fostering OUR Social Referees' Subcultural Intolerance

July 30, 2012 +  August 21 - September 8, 2018

Political Advice from The Comedy Writers At Reuters

July 30, 2012 +  August 1 - 31, 2018

Sadly Russia’s Political Trajectory Emulates Entire World’s Exclusionary Elitism

July 30, 2012 + June 22 - July 31, 2018

Prepared For Better War?

July 27, 2012 + May 31 - July 16, 2018

China Indicts Ousted Official's Wife In Unravelling Financial Scheme Death

July 25, 2012 + May 8 - May 28, 2018

Jailed Former Billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky Sentence Review By Russian Supreme Court

July 24, 2012 + April 20 - May 8, 2018

Hurtling Towards World-Wide-War On Drugs Destruction

July 23, 2012 + March 27 - May 1, 2018

FREE SPEECH: Tough Nugget For KREMLIN To Absorb

July 20, 2012 + March 5 - April 2, 2018

Brighter Days Ahead For North Korea?

July 19, 2012 + February 12 - March 21, 2018

Retirement Not Attention Addicted Larry King's Thing

July 18, 2012 + January 5 - February 23, 2018

No Respite From Game Of Molded Public Opinion

Includes 1995 Sean Hannity e-mail.

July 17, 2012 + December 27, 2017- January 18, 2018

Pulling Rug From Under Small Entrepreneur, Cuban Capitalism Pretends Protectionism Isn't Big Business Disguised As Big Government All Over Again

July 16, 2012 + November 10 - December 27, 2017

New York City's Lea Neal Pulls Herself To Next Plateau

July 13, 2012 + August 18 - November 16, 2017

Ethiopian Free Speech Imprisoned

July 12, 2012 + July 19, August 8 - 21, 2017

Crime Still Refuge For Those Actual Labor Is Beneath

July 11, 2012 + July 7 - 27, 2017

Censorship Question Is Russian Duma's Answer To Protection From Free Speech

July 10, 2012 + June 13 - July 8, 2017

Can Electoral Outrageousness Be Blamed On The Constitution Too?

July 6, 2012 + May 30 - June 14, 2017

Adultery Execution Moves Afghanistan's President Karzai

July 6, 2012 + May 4 - 31, 2017

Europe’s Missile Shield Conundrum Brings Together Russian and German Foreign Ministers

July 6, 2012 + April 11 - May 3, 2017

Intrigue Infiltrates Yasser Arafat Estate

July 3, 2012 + March 27 - April 13, 2017

Andy Griffith Made A Mark

June 29, 2012 + March 14 - 29, 2017

The Fine Society's Debtors Prisons

June 29, 2012 + February 13 - March 21, 2017

ABC Newsworthily Names Kirk Douglas Person of Week

June 28, 2012 + January 30 - February 13, 2017

It's The New Kathie Lee and Regis Show

June 27, 2012 + January 17 - 31, 2017

The Queen Visits Ireland

June 26, 2012 + December 2, 2016 - January 23, 2017

Committee Approves University Football Playoffs

June 25, 2012 + November 9 - 30, 2016

Doctor Who Assisted in Bin Laden Execution 
Still In Pakistani Prison

June 22, 2012 + October 12 - November 8, 2016

When Nothing Is Done Is A Beautiful Democratic Achievement

June 20, 2012 + September 29 - October 11, 2016

A Does A Mexican Trip And Invitation To Moscow Make A Difference Surrounded By Handlers, ALL THE TIME

Putin and Obama

June 17, 2012 + September 8 - 27, 2016
A Fine Day For A Ceremonial Announcement 
In The White House Rose Garden

June 14, 2012 + August 15, 16 & 30 - September 6, 2016

United States Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON Hopes 
KIM JONG-UN Charts Different Course For His People

June 13, 2012 + July 27, 29 - August 12, 2016

Boston Criminal Boss James (Whitey) Bulger's Common-Law Spouse, Catherine E. Greig, Sentenced To Eight Years

June 12, 2012 + July 13, 19 - 28, 2016

What A Difference A RUSSIA DAY Makes

June 11, 2012 + June 27 - July 18, 2016

Too-Big-To-Fail KREMLIN Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST

June 8, 2012 + June 21 - ..., 2016

Who Knows What Our Medical Industrial Complex Costs?

  June 7, 2012 + June 13 - 20, 2016 

 The Labeled Lavishly Leveraged, 19.2% Oklahoma City Thunder Minority-Stake Owner, Aubrey McClendon & Orlando

June 6, 2012 + June 6 - 13, 2016 

Politics Rules Litigious Society Is Women's Fault Probably Since Receiving Right To Vote

June 6, 2012 + May 19 - June 6, 2016

President Mubarak Exonerated Of Direct Involvement 

In Egyptian Arab Spring Uprising Deaths

June 1, 2012 + April 20 - May 18, 2016  

PRESIDENT PUTIN PUBLICLY COVETS PAWN 

May 31, 2012 + April 12 - 20, 2016

The Saga Of Argentina Nationalizing YPF Oil Continues …

May 30, 2012 + March 23 - 25, 2016 

Talking Heads Star Heralds Children's Toy As Transportation Staple

May 25, 2012 + March 15 - 23, 2016

Franchise Owner's Commercial Play For Film Posterity - ON THE ROAD

May 24, 2012 + February 16 - March 15, 2016

Russian Parliament To Economically Control Public Displays Of Dissatisfaction, President Putin Advises

May 23, 2012 + January 12 - February 12, 2016

Absolutely Tragic Trayvon Martin Case

May 22, 2012 Major Television Contributor Clicks Off

May 21, 2012 + January 11, 2016

Putin Cabinet Pick From Associates That Ruled Russia All Along

May 18, 2012 + January 4 - 8, 2016

Could FACEBOOK Be Any More Wholesome, Or Cold Tomorrow

May 7, 2012 + December 28 - 31, 2015

First OCCUPY WALL STREET Related Trial Defendant 

Acquitted of Blocking STREET

May 16, 2012 + December 21 - 27, 2015

Top Executive, Of Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch,

Charged in British Hacking Case 

May 15, 2012 + December 9 - 18, 2015

Ex-New York State Senator Guilty of Skimming From His Own Nonprofit

May 14, 2012 + November 24 - December 8, 2015

Conscience Quest Nosedives As NBC Cancels 

Older Folks’ HARRY’S LAW  

May 10, 2012 + November 17 - 23, 2015

Russian Opposition Leaders Jailing Assumed To Be Crackdown 

May 9, 2012 + November 2 - 16, 2015

Tis The Political Season Of “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" 

1. May 8, 2012 + October 30, 2015 

SHARK TANK 

2015

10/16, CONTEMPORARY HISTORY COURSE PROPOSAL

8/19, Passage Removed Belongs Back In The Declaration of Independence

6/30, INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS

5/8, SMOOTH MOVE SHERLOCK?

3/20, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way?

3/2, JUDGEMENT DAY: The Hollywood Ending?

2/5, ONE BIG CAVITY

2014

12/16, Sycophantism's Grand Parade?

11/13, WHAT'S REALLY EXPECTED?

9/24, Globalization's Carpetbaggers?

8/20, Why Hasn't a Foundation of Peaceful Generations Replaced This Hateful One?

7/18, Transition Who Can't Afford?

6/27, PATRIOTISM FOR EVERYONE

6/13, The Patronage System?

5/20, Political Momentum

4/1, Fix The Sidewalks Party

1/16, Moral Totems Should Be Risen To, Not Fallen From?

2013

12/27, Everyone Has Real Choices? Fictionalized Autobiography

12/13, Here's To The Ukraine In All of Us

11/27, Stop and Frisky?

11/7, America's Mayor? Or Power Of Façade

10/17, Street Etiquette?

10/5,  Would Healthcare Going Down Like Alcohol Prohibition Demonstrate As Much Guts?

9/27,  Are You Celebritized?

9/16, Good News For Modern Management?

8/29, Every Major Military Strike Has Advance Warning?

8/19, Incarceration Or Not To Be Is A Question?

8/9, What’s Worse Is The Claim Two Wrongs Make A Right?

7/28, To The Victor Goes Being Spoiled?

7/11, The Diminishing Art Of Enlivening The News?

6/27, COMRADE PUTIN CONQUERS CRIME?

6/18, PROGRESS DEVOURED THE NEWS? 

6/7, Power Is Tenuous?

5/30, To Be Advertising Or Not To Be Is A Question? The Tuli Kupferberg Play

5/22, Peace on Earth and Goodwill To Every Good Woman and Man?

5/14, How Gutlessly Oblivious To Feigned Integrity Can Selling Culture Be?

5/3, Why The Problems Are In The Details That Aren't The Solution? 

4/25, What Is There To Possibly Hope For In The Show Trial of Aleksei Navalny?

4/18,  Mad Enough To Hurt Innocent People? - BOSTON

4/12, What Appears to be Politics is, after all, Just The Politics Of Appearance? 

4/1, What's To Be Done With Your Legacy? President Putin?

3/26, Endlessly Negotiated Middle East Peace?

3/18, Miracle of Miracles, Finally, A Huger Argentinian Celebrity Than Maradona? 

3/10, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela Succumbed to Cancer

3/1, SERGEI LEONIDOVICH MAGNITSKY'S Martyrdom To Ruthlessness

2/27, Are There Clearer Methods Than Self-Interest Available To World Leaders?

2/11, Argentina Is As Nice A Place To Be As Anywhere In The World Right Now

2/5, Dominoes Fall As Humanity Is In Utter Awe Of Inflation Deflating Economics 

2/1, The Clock Is Ticking On The Dead End Of The Illegal Gun Debate?

1/29, Is It Important Governments Pretend To Have Real Relationships?

1/25, It Is Truly Difficult Facing The Truly Crucial Issues Of Our Minds?

January 21, This Is The Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1/16, Jingoism Isn't Just An Ordinary Eight Letter Word?

1/11, Who's Not Curious About North Korea? 

1/9, Are The Big Issues Only Faced When The Repercussions Are?

1/7, THE POLITICS OF LEVERAGE RULE

1/4, So There Are More Women In Congress Now Than Ever Before in The History of the USA?

1/3, When News From The Far Flung Corners Of The World Is Upbeat?

1/2, Despite Politics, This Has The Makings Of Another Grandest Year 

2012

12/28, Whose Very Merry New Year Is This?

12/27, Swing The Gavel. Bang The Gong. Commercial Freedom Will Relieve Us?

12/21, Politics Is A Wonderful Life?

12/20, Often News Is Not New To You, Who Are About To Enter THE TWILIGHT ZONE

12/19, Is Law Such A Tough Order To Fill?

12/17, If Only Litigation Wasn’t The Only Thing Between The People And Powers That Be?

12/13, Being Clear Is Often Not Even Halfway To Full Disclosure 

12/12, Fashionable Rulers Should Understand What Facing Shame Doesn't Mean?

12/11, Life Isn't This Expensive?

12/7, News Is Not More Tragic Than Ever?

12/5, Beautiful! Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill Still Dutifully Supports Absurdity That Russia's Intelligentsia Bothers To Malign Religion 

12/4, Trust Women Conference

12/3, Five States Will Begin Longer School Days For Some Students

11/30, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rockefeller Center Plaza Christmas Tree

11/28, Apparently There's An Apocalypse?

11/27, World Democracy's Lapse? Benevolent Compromise Is A Human Asset?

11/23, Middle East Peace

11/20, Why Branding News Is Best For Us, Is Not What's Best About Us

11/15, It's Scratch My Itch Now In The World's Unruly, Violent Middle East

11/14, Russia Draws The Same Line Again Between Themselves  

11/13, Celebrity Is Not A Phase, But What We're Doomed To Forevermore?

11/12, There's Nothing More Important Than Facing The Future

11/9, Home Grown Immorality

11/8, Russian Corruption? President Putin Fires Defense Minister

11/7, President Barack Obama Is Re-Elected

10/31, PR in Russian Prison

10/30, Hurricane's Aftermath

10/26, Theodore Roosevelt, Museum of Natural History

10/23, RUSSELL MEANS

10/19, Mid-East Violence

10/18, Righteous News

10/17, Mystery Money?

10/16, Capital Improvement

10/15, Capitalize N. Korea

10/12, China's Nobel Prize

10/11, Moses' Car Legacy

10/10, Lance Armstrong

10/9, Merkel In Greece

Soapbox View began October 9, 2012

The Following First Appeared on journalblock.com 

10/2, PRISON REFORM

10/1, Maker Faire in Queens, NY

September 28, 2012

The Great Hall at Cooper Union 
Introduction of Fifth, Park and Madison 
Starring Steve Athineos

9/25, UN Justice/Revenge

9/22, Gessen & Putin

9/22, Vladimir's Mate

9/20, Corp. Energy Interest

9/13, Medvedev, Enough?

9/12, Christopher Steven

9/11, Texas Extreme Speed Limit

9/10, Russia Big Deal

9/31, Remember Bike Ban

9/30, Lindsay Lohan In NY

9/29, Cautious Safety First

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