Brooks D. Simpson
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Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?
She did no such thing. She offered assertions and challenged a narrative.
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This puts her in the Lutnick trap ... even as she calls for hearings ... which will attract attention.
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Want to believe that people in DC are betting on the collapse of the ceasefire?
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It will be a brittle cease fire. Is there any other kind?
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I'm concerned.
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Trump declares Operation Golden Showers a success.
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The Middle East is a mess.
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Delusional Don the Dumb Diplomat's Iran Disaster.
4 days ago
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Trump backs down again, losing credibility but gaining sanity.
4 days ago
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Henry Adams would be saying, "I told you so," about American politics today.
5 days ago
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Edwin M. Stanton looks better every day.
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What a missmanaged war.
9 days ago
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This is not Kristi Noem's fairy tale.
11 days ago
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So much for unconditional surrender Trump.
11 days ago
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The Trump Presidential Library will include an interactive exhibit entitled "Why we are in Iran?" where visitors enter a room they cannot exit without correctly answering the question. The prototype testing reports that not a single visitor has left the room.
12 days ago
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This war is a textbook example of how not to manage a military conflict.
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Well, Trump 45 is Trump 47's predecessor, so perhaps he was talking to himself
26 days ago
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Incoherent.
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about 1 month ago
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Watching everyone mangle the historical context of "unconditional surrender" in blissful ignorance.
about 1 month ago
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Everywhere dogs and puppies are breathing a sigh of relief.
about 1 month ago
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Dumbest of the dumb.
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youtu.be/giZ2tSSojxo?...
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The End Of The Innocence
YouTube video by Don Henley - Topic
https://youtu.be/giZ2tSSojxo?si=RAI9TdhEgKHSCB6Y
about 1 month ago
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We have to stop Trump supporters from trying to harm the president. This is so typical of the violent right.
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about 2 months ago
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Kash Patel was a lonely boy who just wanted to be liked. Kids around him were scared. Those eyes. I'm just annoyed that at times he pretends to be an Islanders fan.
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I am convinced that Donald J. Trump has no real friends. Not that he deserves any, given how he treats people. A shrewd friend or adviser would help him get rid of at least the more egregious political liabilities around him. But speak truth to power? Guess not. Team of Sycophants.
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This was very good and very thoughtful.
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We know quite a bit about the Presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington but how often did they go to Church...and where?
We know quite a bit about the Presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington but how often did they go to Church...and where?
https://starworldwidenetworks.com/episodes/we-know-quite-a-bit-about-the-presidencies-of-abraham-lincoln-and-george-washington-but-how-often-did-they-go-to-churchand-where
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It's not weird at all. Melania's just helping an old buddy from the Epstein days. You would think that Bezos and the Trumps would know better. The truth is that they don't care.
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2 months ago
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Trump's beginning to learn that some of his puppies in office need to be house-trained. Going to war with the American people never works out well.
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Meaning that the consequences are that it's okay for such federal agents to act like the Brown Shirts and Gestapo?
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Today's essay question: Is the Trump turn in American foreign policy a repudiation of US foreign policy principles or their logical cumulative expression?
3 months ago
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The Trump Doctrine: Extortion by a Bully.
3 months ago
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So ... can you win a land war in Greenland? And if so, so what?
3 months ago
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I used to think Andrew Johnson was our worst president. Used to.
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It is surreal. Yet somehow I am not surprised. Neither are you.
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3 months ago
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We've gone from the bully pulpit to simply being a bully.
3 months ago
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Wait until Speaker Mike Johnson says he has not seen the video of the ICE agent murdering a woman in Minneapolis, so he cannot comment.
3 months ago
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For anyone interested in the American Civil War ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlJ...
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September 29, 2025: Smith Civil War Lecture - Brooks Simpson, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Ohio Wesleyan University StreamOWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlJGCCgy88
3 months ago
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On January 6, 2021, Republicans accepted and defended what they opposed between 1861 and 1865. Never forget. The threat remains. If anything, it's worse.
3 months ago
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I wonder how many pro-Trump neoConfederates who attack Lincoln's actions in the Fort Sumter crisis are celebrating Trump's actions today.
3 months ago
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I would encourage the president to follow his own path on this matter, which is a clear demonstration of his superior performance on cognitive tests.
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3 months ago
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Erika Kirk teaches us all how to move on.
3 months ago
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I have heard that you don't trade him.
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4 months ago
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Dust jackets can conceal what you are really reading.
4 months ago
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So what is the most powerful field on the planet - Politics or Religion? Prof. Brooks Simpson will help you pick one.
So what is the most powerful field on the planet - Politics or Religion? Prof. Brooks Simpson will help you pick one.
https://starworldwidenetworks.com/episodes/so-what-is-the-most-powerful-field-on-the-planet-politics-or-religion-prof-brooks-simpson-will-help-you-pick-one
4 months ago
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Fame takes many forms.
www.thepoke.com/2025/12/04/w...
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When it comes to publicly groveling in front of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz just lowered the bar to subterranean levels
Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, has made a career out of publicly humiliating himself. There was the time he tried, and failed, to clean up some public vandalism, there was his truly disturbing Freudian slip...
https://www.thepoke.com/2025/12/04/when-it-comes-to-publicly-groveling-in-front-of-donald-trump-ted-cruz-just-lowered-the-bar-to-subterranean-levels/
4 months ago
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Their followers believe what they say. The question is how many voters who supported Trump are open to empirical evidence and experience. So much lying.
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5 months ago
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If you think that the military history of the Civil War is simply a story of generals and battles, you haven't kept up with the literature. For decades. At best, it's ignorance. At worst, it's insulting. It's also sooooo yesterday.
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Slob.
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