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Larry Thornberry

Larry Thornberry is a writer in Tampa.
by | Feb 1, 2019

Later this month will mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest air battle — actually week of air battles — of World War II. Operation Argument, informally known to the flyers who had to execute it and the journalists who wrote about it as Big Week, is not as well-known as other turning point engagements in the war. But it should be. 

by | Feb 1, 2019

Our George Neumayr is right, of course, that the trajectory of leftist policy would eventually get us, in small but inevitable…

by | Jan 22, 2019

My sources in New Orleans tell me, with justified bitterness and not entirely tongue-in-cheek, that the sign on the door…

by | Jan 21, 2019

Will Rogers, long ago, had the most economical analysis and dismissal of the issue that currently worries wonks, swamp creatures,…

by | Jan 2, 2019

It’s not just me. My impression has been confirmed. There has been a flag-storm in the NFL this year where a record…

by | Dec 24, 2018

Those of you waiting for things to become a little more statesmanlike, or even coherent, in “the world’s greatest deliberative…

by | Dec 5, 2018

If there’s ever a most-liberal-Church-in-Boston contest, you might want to put a fiver on St. Susanna Parish, where it appears…

by | Nov 30, 2018

Our Bill Croke’s melancholy observations on the contemporary public library are spot on.The plague he describes and laments is a national…

by | Nov 23, 2018

It’s appropriate that I started writing this on Thanksgiving morning. We all have every reason to be thankful for the courageous Americans who stood up and did their duty during WWII, including the flyers military historian Bruce Gamble brings us in the very readable Kangaroo Squadron.

by | Nov 21, 2018

And here you thought the Sierra Club was all about clean air, clean water, and saving the snail darter. Silly…

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