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Milot’s Musings: What Unity?

Daily Advance 24 Jan 2021

“Biden Seeks Unity, Healing” read The Wall Street Journal’s headline. “We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue.”. The media gushed over President Biden’s inaugural address ... So much for unity ... and share women-only spaces ... It should ... Claude Milot, a resident of Perquimans County, can be reached at cmilot@embarqmail.com ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: Toward Totalitarianism

Daily Advance 17 Jan 2021

Human history is replete with examples of individuals or groups seeking power over others. Sociologists might explain that it is part of the evolutionary make-up of the human species ... Maintaining power is a different story, however ... Even now ... Maybe forever ... Claude Milot, a resident of Perquimans County, can be reached at cmilot@embarqmail.com ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: Hit the Road, Jack

Daily Advance 10 Jan 2021

A year ago, right after President Trump had been impeached, I wrote that the charges against him had been bogus, the result of an unremitting war that had sought to destroy him since the day he was elected ... It didn’t have to be this way ... What happened? ... That did it ... Claude Milot, a resident of Perquimans County, can be reached at cmilot@embarqmail.com....

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Milot’s Musings: Good and Bad Years

Daily Advance 07 Jan 2021

Pundits are calling 2020 annus horribilis. It certainly was a horrible year, what with the pandemic, the riots, and cries of election fraud dominating every news broadcast. But was it the worst?. When I was thinking about it, I remembered that 1968 had been, until now, getting top billing. So, I looked it up ... The ship has never been released ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: Images of 2020

Daily Advance 31 Dec 2020

In many ways and for many people 2020 was a year full of images to forget—the impeachment circus, the Democratic presidential debates, the protests and the riots, the empty arena seats, President Trump’s inept press conferences, toppled statues, and more ... Three words can summarize it ... Let me explain ... Claude Milot is a Perquimans County resident. ....

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Milot’s Musings: Random Observations

Daily Advance 24 Dec 2020

Cancel Culture Gone Wild. Nothing satisfies the radical left when it comes to purging American history. Even our nation’s most revered figures must be erased from our collective memory. No exceptions. Even Washington, Jefferson, and the rest of our Founders must go ... Another Viewpoint ... Absurdities ... Good COVID News ... More Good News ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: What Now?

Daily Advance 17 Dec 2020

When the Supreme Court declined to take up the Texas suit (as I was sure they would), Republican attempts to overturn the presidential election results ran out of gas. And President Trump, like it or not, will be run out of the White House on January 20. But one consequential question remains. What Now? ... These feelings will not go away anytime soon ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: Christmas Postponed

Daily Advance 10 Dec 2020

Last year at this time my wife and I were starting to assemble the clothes and packages that would fill the back of the car for our annual drive to Florida to spend Christmas with family members we had not seen since the previous holiday season ... This year the clothes will remain in our closet and the boxes of gifts will be sent by mail ... L.A ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: A Year to Remember — or Forget

Daily Advance 03 Dec 2020

This has been the year of the slogan, the year of the battle cry, the year of the big lie. At the top of the list is “Black Lives Matter,” the most pervasive and pernicious lie of them all. No one could dispute the reality—black lives do matter ... Offenders dutifully recanted and knelt in shame ... The slogan worked ... Slogans proliferated ... A battle cry rose ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: On Thanksgiving

Daily Advance 26 Nov 2020

It was just a big rock, but I wanted to see it. Taking a break from a business meeting in Boston about 50 years ago, I drove down the coast to Plymouth to see where the Mayflower had come ashore on November 11, 1620 ... Fittingly, more than a million visitors come to see it every year ... They would face starvation and misery that first winter ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: All of the Above

Daily Advance 19 Nov 2020

The United States has achieved the enviable position of being energy independent. We can heat our homes, fuel our cars, and light up Las Vegas without having to rely on anybody but ourselves and only on our own rich resources. The winning formula is “All of the Above.” That means putting all energy sources to work. The latest data from the U.S ... ....

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Milot’s Musings: Open the Schools

Daily Advance 12 Nov 2020

Now that Joe Biden has won the right to put his feet up on the Oval Office desk, I suppose we can rest easy knowing that he has solutions to the COVID crisis. A large segment of our population can’t wait ... My daughter Danielle is an 8th grade public school teacher in Pima County, Arizona ... Kids hate it ... Brilliant ... Claude Milot is a resident of Hertford . ....

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Milot’s Musings: My America

Daily Advance 05 Nov 2020

On many a Saturday afternoon when I was a boy growing up in northern Rhode Island, I would ride with my dad in his green Hudson Hornet to visit his dad and brothers in Lowell, Massachusetts. On one such occasion in the fall of 1948, we were forced to wait at a railroad crossing in Framingham, halfway to our destination ... It was President Harry Truman....