From the vault, October 16, 2014: A great essay is worth repeating. This piece was originally titled “How I Learned to Stop Chewing Tobacco and Take Up Smoking” and appeared in the 1969 edition of the Wings of the Dawn, Aurora College’s (now Aurora University) annual student-writing competition. It garnered
Musings: The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 17). He has: Sent an “armada” to Iran in order to “protect” the protesters of the Ayatollah Khameinei regime; Created a “Board of Peace” which would replace the United Nations by the members of the Trump family, making him essentially the “King
Musings: •Heyyy! The Commie dude comin’ atcha after a brief hiatus. Are ya ready for a fresh batch of antifa s**t. Well, y’all come to the right place, dude. Hang on to yer undies! I fully expected the B.S. dude to respond to my essay on the socio-political remodeling of
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 14). He has: Announced the revival of nuclear testing; Advised the Republican Party to end the filibuster in the Senate in order to deny the Democratic Party control of the government forever; Dispatched three military aircraft to El Salvador without the approval
From the vault, June 12, 2014 (revised): School shootings. Assaults on minorities. Government troops in the streets. Congressional gridlock. Inflation. The list of societal woes goes on and on. How many times, dear reader, do we speak about the “good old days” when life was simpler, people were more civil,
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 13). He has: Authorized the CIA to conduct operations in Venezuela as a first step toward ousting Nicholas Madura from his presidency; Paused “lower-priority” Army Corps of Engineers projects in “blue” cities and states and may end them altogether; Threatened to declare
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Look out workers at The Voice. If ”The Chas” Coddington had it his way, he would take the paper and make it an employee-owned and operated state publication. He would then have you work for The Voice as an employee for wages he would determine for
From the vault, September 6, 2018 (revised): In a previous essay, I declared that capitalism was the worst economic system ever devised by the minds of men. It has engendered greed and corruption on a massive scale and is diametrically opposed to democracy, i.e. the wealth of the few vs.
From the vault: July 18, 2022 (revised): He has quartered large bodies of troops among us. He has protected them…from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States. The above are two of the reasons inscribed in the Declaration of Independence that the United
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The “Chas,” as Charles Coddington refers to himself (in the third person is a quirkiness that defines him better than any combination of words could ever describe. I’ve only known one other person with this affliction, and he, just as Charles, was full of “it.” But
Musings: •The sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 11). He has: Removed three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in order to gain control of the agency; Weakened the guidelines of the National Environmental Protection Act, ignoring climate change and environmental justice, and slashed public participation; Ordered NASA
Author’s note: Donald Trump’s threat to fire Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve Bank, and the governors of the regional banks, suggests that he would like to absorb the Fed under his watchful eye. This is not the first time the Republic’s method of governing the Nation’s economy has
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 10). He has: Closed the agency which prevents human trafficking; Stripped funds for high-speed rail in California in order to tweak governor Gavin Newsom’s nose; Gutted funding for public broadcasting (PBS and NPR); Stopped enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; Withdrawn the
Musings: •What’s in the Jeffrey Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know. As an historian, The Chas avoids conspiracy theories as often as possible. He does, however, harbor a few mysteries only if the “official” explanations (or lack thereof) do not with agree with the circumstances. If a given match-up
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter nine). He has: Reduced the funding of all indigenous colleges and universities; Ended the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies” programs which monitored passengers in airports and on airplanes who might pose a security risk; Eliminated half a billion dollars in grants to
From the vault, September 4, 2014 (revised): In the biblical book of Revelation (chapter 6, verses 1-8), the so-called “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are described. The first wields a bow, wears a white crown, and rides a white horse; he is called “Conquest.” The second wields a great sword
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter eight). He has: Slashed the funding of projects which investigate systemic abuse of indigenous children in government boarding schools; Fired Carla Hayden, director of the Library of Congress in order to take control of the Library and access its sensitive data; Removed
Musings: “National Security,” part two: According to the Coddington Agenda, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was modeled after the Soviet Union’s KGB and Nazi Germany’s Gestapo. That is to say that what worked for other spy operations ought to work for America’s. And so it has, month in and
May 29, 2025Dear editor; In the May 22, 2025 issue of “The Voice,” Charles Coddington asserted, for what I believe is third time in his column, the largely discredited hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from Biblical Israelites, but rather from Khazars who converted to the religion of Judaism
“National security” has been a bugaboo since the end of World War II. The “threat” to the United States was the Soviet Union and “international communism.” Successive administrations were urged to beef up our defense posture in order to prevent the “Commies” from taking over the world. We entered into
