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A Commentary on Killing Charlie Kirk
The Left won’t like the comparisons. Then again, they never liked Charlie Kirk. But the assassination of a national change-maker such as...

Jason James Barry
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(Un) coincidental
What if there’s no such a thing as coincidence, like in an M. Night Shyamalan “Signs” kind of way? What if my book sales dropped off to zero for my memoir about emerging from the shadow of my father (after my Facebook account was shut down since July for… and I’m just guessing here… trying to promote my book). And I get one more erroneous book sale, out of the blue and after a solid month of social-media-isolation — on the anniversary of the death of my father.

Jason James Barry
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Tech Logjam Angers Caffeine Junkies
The Millennial / Gen Z / Tech Alliance nearly caused a Starbucks revolt by VB parents (not us) at the Commerce Street location in Dallas,...

Jason James Barry
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When in Cowboy Country, Go Irish
All I thought of in the days leading up was the food. The real McCoy, the fall-off-the-bone barbecue stuff. After all, we’re in Dallas....

Jason James Barry
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The Hitchhiker and the Vampire
At its core, he has fame and tremendous wealth. And she has beauty, youth, and adoration. And maybe something has to do with the...

Jason James Barry
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Never Regret: The Stupid Question
Recently, something’s come up: The stupid question. Quite honestly, I ask it a lot — and have since I first started getting sharp as a...

Jason James Barry
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Out of Class: A College Journal, Part 1
Somehow, the upperclass floormate of a girl I hooked up with had called, and invited me to her dorm room. But it felt odd, and rang with...

Jason James Barry
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Not Terror, Not True. Did the FBI Try Punting About Terrorism in New Orleans For Politics?
In the early stages of event unfolding, a truck plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revealers, followed by a police shootout with the...

Jason James Barry
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Why I Voted For Obama, and Trump
In 2008, voting for Barack Obama was a clear decision to me. At the time, America was emerging from two-terms of George W. Bush, Ground...

Jason James Barry
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Why California Likes Harris, Not Trump
Like it or not, out here in SoCal your family and mine qualify as coastal elites — owning million dollar properties just minutes from the...

Jason James Barry
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The Where Were You Day
I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

Jason James Barry
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Blame it on Reno: A NoCal Volleyball Tourney Journey
Nothing throws off an ambling wanderer like being stuck, isolated in a hotel. Welcome to Grand Sierra Resort, the place that doesn’t want...

Jason James Barry
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SLC Volleyball Tourney Journey — Dinner Redemption After Crappy Concession
A day of girls volleyball wins on-court at the Salt Lake City Showdown was met with lackluster convention center food fare. Cutting to...

Jason James Barry
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Vegas Tourney Journey — Stuck in Line at a Starbucks Edition
Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...

Jason James Barry
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Four Years Gone By: A Pandemic Retrospective
Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...

The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Memes, With Trolls Waiting to Pounce
There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that....

The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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The MLK Dream Revisited
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… The need for his words rings truer and louder now, in times when divides by race have been grasped and...

GPR Editorial
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Crime Notes (and trying to impress girls) — Inside a Police Memoir
a Buzzard Digital interview with author Jason James Barry Buzzard Digital: You wrote a police memoir, “The Midnight Coffee Club: A Memoir...

Buzzard Digital
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An Arrest of a Cop
Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...

The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Our Affinity For Arguing About Gun Violence — While Avoiding Why
The gun violence problem people have been talking about — when did ours begin? I’ve asked this out loud and to myself in the wake of the...

The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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