— by Polydamas The left’s methodical campaign to topple monuments and to scour the public square of all disapproved historical figures recently claimed yet another victory. Lori Aratani recounts the details in her October 28, 2017 Washington Post article titled “Historic…
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Homer’s Tale of an ATF Agent’s Fondest Dream
— by Homer Once upon a time, there was a ageing agent, who worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, the ATF. He was 63 years old, and very near to his retirement. One morning, he awoke from…
The Left’s Departure From Reality Has Dire Consequences
— by Polydamas Ayn Rand once wrote “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality”. People may choose to build a city at the foot of a volcano. They can persuade themselves that they are…
Draining the Beltway Swamp Must Start With Hillary Clinton
— by Polydamas The latest story circulating around Washington, D.C. is that the Department of Justice, now headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reopened its investigation into former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal and plans to offer her a…
Destructive Leftist Ideology Ruins Dr. Who and Saddens Fans
— by Teucer When I first read that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently cast a woman as the new protagonist in its iconic Dr. Who franchise, I had several vivid thoughts in rapid succession. I knew that this was coming…
Why They Won’t Truly Repeal Obamacare
— by Odysseus Health Care for US, But Veterinary Care for You. As the Republican Congress gets closer to repealing Obamacare, without actually repealing Obamacare, it is the role of The Cassandra Times to explain to you what is really…
$15 Minimum Wage Fails As We Predicted It Would
— by Polydamas Minimum wage legislation always begins with the enthusiasm of idealism and ends with the thud of reality. Even a college student, who had taken but a single undergraduate class in economics, would not be surprised by the…
America’s Fight Against True Tyranny
— by Polydamas On this 241st anniversary of our nation’s declaration of independence from Great Britain, there is no better time or greater need to examine what our Founding Fathers believed was tyranny that justified an armed uprising. The deplorable…
Edgar Mark Comey Fails in His Audition For the Democrats’ Impeachment Play
— by Polydamas Ecclesiastes 1:9 is correct. There really is no new thing under the sun. Like Hollywood, the Washington, D.C. Beltway constantly mines past blockbusters for new remakes and sequels by re-purposing old, tried-and-true scripts. For the past four…
The Deep State’s Plan to Desensitize America to the “New Normal”
— by Polydamas We here at The Cassandra Times have long admired the writings of Robert A. Heinlein, who was one of the pillars of the nascent science fiction literary genre. His writing career generally spanned from the 1940s through…