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“Silence in the Face of Evil is Evil Itself” Charlottesville and the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I spent time watching for the response of many friends on social media to what happened in Charlottesville over the weekend there was one thing that stood out more...
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The Vision of the Alt-Right Nazis: Allied Footage of the Nazi Concentration...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am going to keep this short today. Bottom line up front I have grown weary of the moral equivalency that I see in the comments of many conservatives, especially...
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Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I was aghast when I heard President Trump’s third set of remarks about the Nazi caused violence and death in Charlottesville this weekend. I hardly could believe my ears...
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“Time to Oblterate the Marks of Civil Strife and the Feelings of Oblivion the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Just a short post today because I have become weary of cyber-battles with neo-Confederates and Alt-Right Nazis. That is not to say that I won’t stop fighting them, but...
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Basketball Court Update: An Activist is Born
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, What an exciting day to be alive and to do something that matters for kids. I have written a couple of times about what is going on in my neighborhood regarding getting...
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A Monument to Murder
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In light of the Confederate Monument controversy I am posting a part of one of my book drafts regarding the Colfax Massacre. This event occurred eight years after the...
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Statues With Limitations: Part One
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Over the past week I have written a number of articles about what happened in Charlottesville and I have promised to write something about the Confederate Monument...
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The Past Isn’t Quaint: A Pause to Reflect
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I mentioned that I will be continuing my article on the Confederate Statue Controversy when I posted my last two articles. I will be doing that but the date has been...
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Statues With Limitations: Part Two
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Alexander Pope wrote “Monuments, like men, submit to fate.” Two days ago I began a series regarding the Confederate Monument Controversy. I was going to begin today’s...
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“It’s the People Stupid” The Need for Professional Mariners
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’m holding off finishing the last part of my series Statues with Limitations until tomorrow. Of the past day I have been consumed with the collision of the USS John S....
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Statues With Limitations: Part Three
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am continuing my series about statues and monuments which was fueled by the controversy regarding various Confederate monuments and memorials, most which are in...
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God Help Texas, the United States, and the President before It’s Too Late
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am very concerned for all the people that I know who live along the Gulf Coast of Texas as category IV Hurricane Harvey makes landfall. That storm is likely going to...
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Embracing “Lawless Disorder”
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, For nearly two years since President Trump began his presidential campaign in 2015 I have been warning that if elected he would become an authoritarian leader. After...
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Presidential Twitter Storms and the Absence of Empathy
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As residents of southeast Texas struggled against the unrelenting rain and floods of former Hurricane Harvey the President was on a Twitter spree recommending a book by...
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“But the Jews Weren’t the Only Ones” How Ordinary and Terrifyingly Normal...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have to admit that the amount of ignorance in the defense of evil that I see daily is simply mind blowing. It makes me shake my head. But then I cannot be surprised...
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The Eternal Precedent of the Holocaust
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, While I was writing the article that I published here yesterday that I was not done with the subject, and that in the words of Hedy (that’s Headly) Lamar “My mind is a...
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They Silently Gather Around Me: Walking the Antietam Battlefield
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As you know from yesterday’s article I am taking an extended weekend in the D.C. area and yesterday I took a trip up to the Antietam Battlefield which surrounds much of...
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The Glory of Solitude
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am writing late after a long but good day at a meet up for owners of Papillon dogs. Saturdays are usually my time to be alone and spend time with Judy and our...
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Of Hubris, Hurricanes, Hydrogen Bombs, and Harder Alternatives
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I got five mile walk in with my dogs Minnie and Izzy along the Potomac River and has a good amount of time to enjoy them, to take in the woods and wildlife, and to do...
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Thoughts on Labor Day
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Yesterday was Labor Day and sadly many people don’t really understand its significance. For decades organized labor has been demonized by the descendants of people who...
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