After taking my wife to the airport Saturday morning, I returned to the house to find that the United States had staged a military attack on the petro-state of Venezuela and had captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife.  My initial thoughts were of the first academic award I ever received.  It was my senior thesis at Marshall University when I wrote about the decision of the Venezuelan people to nationalize all foreign oil companies as of 1976.  I also noticed that many of my for

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