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  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Josh Kavanagh Thriller Series launched with Never for Glory

    He’d give his life for his country. But this time, it’s personal. Josh Kavanagh burns for vengeance. Parachuting with no backup into a lawless area of southern Venezuela, the Special Ops legend is intent on hunting down the rogue agent who put his wife in a coma. But as soon as he gets feet on […]

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    James Harvey: How We Cooked the Books to Produce a Deeply Flawed “A Nation at Risk”

    James Harvey, a member of the staff that wrote what ended up being called “A Nation at Risk”, reveals why/how our government in 1983, declared war on OUR public schools, our teachers, our family values, and our children. A war that has made some wealthy while letting our schools rot, and turned our public schools […]

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    Trump calls January 6, 2021, a “day of love.”

    According to testimony from his former aide Cassidy Hutchinson, Donald Trump knew that some of his supporters gathering for his January 6, 2021, rally were armed when he told security to remove metal detectors. In a June 2022 hearing, Hutchinson told the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack that Trump was informed about the […]

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    Donald John Trump and MAGA Represents Racism and Cruelty

    It’s a widely accepted view among scholars and historians that fascism, racism, and cruelty are closely linked and often exist together. Trump, MAGA, and fascism prioritizes the nation or a specific group (often defined by race or ethnicity) above all else, supporting extreme nationalism, authoritarian rule, and the suppression of opposing voices. Donald Trump: Aggressive […]

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    Donald John Trump’s Big Beautiful Holes in Iran

    The US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, including Operation Midnight Hammer, involved a significant deployment of resources. For example, seven B-2 stealth bombers, each valued at approximately $2.1 billion, participated in the mission. Over 125 US aircraft were involved in total, including bombers, fighters, tankers, surveillance aircraft, and support crews. The bombs dropped during the […]

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    Who to trust — left vs right — Vox vs Fox

    Vox — left bias “Overall, we rate Vox Left Biased due to editorial positions and story selection that routinely favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.” Fox — right bias “Overall, we rate Fox News right biased based on editorial positions that […]

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    What has Donald Trump’s Klepto-Kakistocracy Regime done to the Veterans Administration?

    Trump’s appointee to run the VA replaced the HealthyVet website, which veterans like me used to contact anyone on their VA health team that deals with our health issues, with a new website where we had to prove we were human and us, before we could switch accounts. To prove I was human, I had to […]

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    Walking in Hitler’s Shoes on the Path to World War III

    I recently read in the Atlantic that Hitler imposed tariffs on Germany’s major trading partners when he became chancellor, tanking Germany’s economy putting that country further down the path toward World War II. So, when I read this post, I started fact-checking to verify all of Hitler’s footsteps Trump has followed wearing Hitler’s shoes, on […]

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    The U.S. Transition from Democracy to Dictatorship

    The Traitorous Felon and Maniac Musk are in the process of taking over the DOD, the U.S. military, firing loyal generals, who all took an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution against enemies like them, and replacing those generals with fascsit MAGA loyalists, while abandoning alliances with democracies around the world and forging new alliances […]

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    Launching Fiddling with Death

    The 3rd Thriller in the Josh Kavanagh Series Fiddling With Death’s official book launch started February 10 and ended the 17th, with the earliest reviews any of my books have had. Usually, it takes a month or more after a book launch for the first review to appear. This time, the first four came out […]

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    #1: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller Short Story

    SECOND SHOT The Patriot Oath’s Chapter 3 from Rachel’s POVThis is a Reader Magnet  Suki entered the dining room, looking excited for the first time since the assault. “He’s here!” she said, her voice animated. The chatter around the table stopped. Rachel thought, Who got her excited like that? The only empty chairs at the […]

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    My Battle between Building an Author’s Email List or finishing Fiddling with Death

    Since my first novel, My Splendid Concubine, came out in December 2007, I’ve done almost everything legal to promote my books. Still, there’s one promotion method I haven’t tried, creating an author’s email list that includes free reader magnets. “An author’s email list is a collection of email addresses from readers who have opted-in to […]