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bfwebster on May 28th, 2012

Remembering those veterans from our respective families who have since passed on (reposted from years past): Bruce Henderson: Peter Anderson, USMC — My dear departed uncle Peter served with Marine Intel during Vietnam Ian Henderson, RAF — [my dear departed father] RAF pilot who served the crown during the Battle of Britain as well the [...]

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bfwebster on October 5th, 2011

The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving [...]

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bfwebster on December 7th, 2010

I could do without the music and intense narration, but I post this in memory of my late father, John A. Webster, who was there at Pearl Harbor as a 17-year-old seaman first class aboard the USS San Francisco.  If you click through on the video to YouTube, there are additional segments. Hat tip to [...]

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bfwebster on September 4th, 2010

Hat tip to Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on December 20th, 2009

A big hat tip to Andrew Malcom over at Top of the Ticket (one of the best political blogs on the web) for posting this video.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on December 3rd, 2009

Heh. Hat tip to American Digest. ..bruce..

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bfwebster on October 13th, 2009

Matt Welch over at Reason reminds us of a critical historical event that, curiously, we don’t celebrate: November 1989 was the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history, yet two decades later the country that led the Cold War coalition against communism seems less interested than ever in commemorating, let [...]

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bfwebster on May 1st, 2009

ADMIN: Yeah, I know today’s post title doesn’t rhyme with the others — but here’s a quick test of your own nit-pickiness: did the difference between Monday’s title and the rest of the week bother you? MORNING LINKS (and these are likely the only link you’ll get today). LINK: Speaking of workers, I’m going to [...]

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bfwebster on April 26th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st). ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce [...]

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bfwebster on April 20th, 2009

[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed  — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit): MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a [...]

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