One year ago, the economy was humming. My hometown had an unemployment rate of something like 1%, which is the same as saying that everybody who wanted a job had a job. The trick was finding people who wanted to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for March, 2021
One year ago, I traveled up north. I got my hair cut before going. I wore a suit. I was going to court, you see. I sold my house up there, and the people buying it stopped their monthly payments[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Five years ago, Philando Castile was shot five times in Falcon Heights, near Minneapolis, after following standard policy and informing an officer that he had a firearm. He died. Four years ago, the officer who shot him was acquitted on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One year ago, Saturday, I remember going to eat at a Pizza Ranch. Rumors had been percolating for a while about the virus ripping through the Wuhan Province of China. Hence the term China or Wuhan Virus that it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Federal government began arresting those related to the previous Presidential administration and charging them with a multitude of crimes, Virginia’s central law enforcement agencies cooperated in every way they could. The mountainous counties of western Virginia were not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Federal government quickly secured a confession from Vice-President Freemon on charges of promoting an armed insurrection against the government. The confession specified that his family, who had also been arrested, were not aware of his treason, and had no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vice-President John Jefferson Freemon returned to his western Virginia home to a heroes’ welcome. His friends and family loved him. The long-term patients he had cared for in his doctor’s practice loved him. Those who had donated or taken part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The States of Dixie grew immensely powerful and rich in the years leading up to the Second Civil War. Their factories armed the American military, and most of the military bases were in those States, or States friendly to them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The States that make up the Confederation of Dixie were always a breed apart from the other American States. Many of them seceded during the First Civil War. The richest families of that Old South had been the pinnacle of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Jefferson Freemon was the hometown hero in the western Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town of Lexington. He had been the captain of his high school football team. He continued to play football for the local Washington and Lee University[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…