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Geoff Schoos
Jan 18, 20225 min read
You either believe or you don’t
On MLK Day, was on Twitter (yes, Twitter, but if it’s good enough for Biden, Obama, and professor Tribe it’s good enough for me) when in...
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Geoff Schoos
Jan 2, 20224 min read
Personal announcement
“We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts Made...
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Geoff Schoos
Apr 8, 20218 min read
(No) right to bear arms.
Events over the past several weeks have brought the issue of gun control into stark relief. Over the past two weeks from the time of this...
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Geoff Schoos
Mar 12, 20213 min read
testimony of my experience
FOR SUBMISSION TO THE WASHINGTON POST On Sunday, February 28, the Washington Post published an unsigned Opinion on its editorial page...
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Geoff Schoos
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Open letter to rep. Kevin mccarthy
Representative McCarthy, I’d like respond to something you said over the weekend. In an interview, you remarked that we are “all...
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Geoff Schoos
Feb 14, 20217 min read
The whole world is watching - the music’s over
In 1967, the Doors released its second album “Strange Days.” The last track on the album was entitled, “When the Music’s Over.” On...
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Geoff Schoos
Feb 13, 20214 min read
The whole world is watching - part iii
The phrase “the whole world is watching” was first used in a political context at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Outside the...
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Geoff Schoos
Feb 12, 20214 min read
The whole world is watching part ii
In today’s episodic daytime drama, the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump - Part II, the House Managers rested their case-in-chief. Before...
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Geoff Schoos
Feb 11, 20214 min read
The whole world is watching!
The past two days saw the Senate vote that “late” impeachment’s were constitutional and the House Managers begin to unleash a devastating...
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Geoff Schoos
Feb 2, 20216 min read
Open letter to senator Rand paul
Dear Senator Paul, Last week you raised a point of order that declared the February 8 impeachment proceedings to be unconstitutional....
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Geoff Schoos
Jan 26, 20214 min read
Open letter to represenative Kevin McCarthy.
Dear Representative McCarthy, I am writing in response to an interview this past weekend in which you stated that “everyone” was...
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Geoff Schoos
Jan 20, 20213 min read
“Democracy has prevailed”
Two weeks ago to the day, a riotous mob invaded the Capitol and attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election by disenfranchising...
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Geoff Schoos
Jan 10, 20215 min read
Revolutionary chic
In 1970, the author Tom Wolfe wrote a magazine article entitled “Radical Chic: That Party At Lenny’s.” “Lenny” was Leonard Bernstein who...
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Geoff Schoos
Dec 31, 20204 min read
It can happen here
In the 1930s, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel entitled “It Can’t Happen Here.” The novel transposed what was happening in Europe to the...
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Geoff Schoos
Dec 12, 20201 min read
GoLocalProv...
GoLocalProv is a great friend to me and is a locally owned source of news. They cover national, regional and local news, along with...
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Geoff Schoos
Dec 11, 20204 min read
None dare call it treason
John Harrington, a late 16th and early 17th century courtier to Queen Elizabeth and King James I, once famously wrote, "Treason doth...
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Geoff Schoos
Dec 1, 20206 min read
Respect - two vignettes
Long ago, in the Dark Ages of 1967, Aretha Franklin released what would soon be the classic song "Respect." This is a song about a woman...
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Geoff Schoos
Nov 25, 20207 min read
Giving Thanks that Giuliani is not my lawyer
In a February 1, 2017 Mindsetter™ published by GoLocalProv, I wrote: If the banality of Donald Trump continues unabated, morphing into a...
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Geoff Schoos
Nov 17, 20206 min read
Ulysses redoux
(NOTE: This is a repost of a previous post that was half published. This will contain the entire post) I'm not a very introspective...
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Geoff Schoos
Nov 15, 20203 min read
Ulysses
I'm not a very introspective person. All my adult life has been consumed in my work, whether it was teaching or lawyering. But with the...
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