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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Captain Oba of Saipan

BC Cook INTENDING to be a peaceful school teacher, he soon found himself engulfed in the flames of a world war.  His sense of duty to his country grew stronger than his devotion to his wife so he joined the struggle and ended up on Saipan.  How he led a small band of soldiers and civilians in a des…
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OPINION ǀ Time for a Pacific Charter

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Lima, Peru.  THE Heritage Foundation asked me to keynote a recent roundtable on its “Pacific Pivot” paper on Pacific Island strategic challenges.  I had planned to critique the…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Mutiny on the Bounty, part 2

BC Cook LAST week we looked in on the most famous mutiny in history.  What follows is the most incredible part of the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.  Naked from the waist down, Captain Bligh was ripped from his sleep and brought on deck to face the mutineers.  Without much discussion Fletcher C…
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Variations ǀ The arc of history and ponies and rainbows

HISTORICALLY, whenever Marxists — i.e., “Scientific Socialists” — assumed power, religion was either outlawed or placed firmly under the control of the regime, which, in turn, often transformed into a religion itself, complete with its own deities, saints, “sacred” writings, rituals, and festivals.…
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