Born in Kenya, Nearly Irrelevant — by Patrokles What if Barack Hussein Obama were actually to have been born in Kenya in 1961? While there may be many issues surrounding the “Certificate of Live Birth”, said to have been issued…
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The Road to Ruin or to Salvation
The Road to Ruin or to Salvation—by Polydamas There is an apocryphal, yet, nonetheless, amusing story about a chemist, an engineer, and an economist who were shipwrecked on a barren desert island. They had with them a large supply of…
The Limits of Tolerance
The Limits of Tolerance—by Odysseus Try, if you dare, a thought puzzle. A hypothetical if you will. What if there were a religion in the world, whose holy treatise demanded that they must offer everyone they meet the opportunity to…
Even National Review Doesn’t See It?
Even National Review Doesn’t See It? — by Odysseus Obama’s people literally created this material? Intentionally? Didn’t they recognize that “Julia” was the name of the love interest in George Orwell’s “1984”? Did they do it intentionally as a joke,…
What’s New is Really Old
What’s New is Really Old—by Odysseus Some time in waning hours of the twentieth century, the political discourse in the United States tumbled down a rabbit hole, leaving us all stranded in this “looking glass” world. Our whole political debate has…
Welcome
Welcome to The Cassandra Times. In the not-so-distant past, educated adults studied and were knowledgeable about the mythologies as well as histories of ancient Greece and Rome, which were the Cradle of Western Civilization. An allusion to the name “Cassandra”…