by Philip Farruggio | Dec 27, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
An annual tradition, since my childhood, has been to watch the 1951 film classic A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim. In the film Ebenezer Scrooge, played by Sim, is taken back by the Ghost of Christmas past to review events in his life. What always brings tears...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog
He was tired, dead tired. It was fifteen minutes to five and he was late. Had to get into the security office, meet up with Ruth and get into costume. Didn’t figure on so much traffic. How stupid! It was the week of Christmas you idiot!! He always yelled aloud...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Lovers of real American history should recall the words uttered by the late, great newsman and newscaster Edward R. Murrow about Senator Joe McCarthy. During the height of the political witch hunts orchestrated and influenced by the late Senator (AKA McCarthyism)...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Let’s put Covid aside and address the 2nd most heinous ( yes, I use that term) and deadly epidemic facing us all. This disease had always, it seems, been around our nation, let alone most of Europe. Unlike Covid or the flu, this epidemic has a few different names:...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 1, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
There are less than 1% of Americans who earn over $5 Million per year. They are taxed at the same top rate ( 37%) as those earning approximately $ 600k a year. Sixty years ago the top rate was never under 70%, ditto for the 1970s. Reagan came in and had it lowered to...
