It's frustrating, how these childishly suspicious gossips (these former journalists who wanna-be soap-opera stars) assume that Vice-President Mike Pence is the one who sent 'that anonymous op-ed' to the New York Times because of that 'clue' (in the campy style of Adam West's Batman's Riddler) of "using the word 'lodestar.'
Does anyone else in Washington D.C. use that word? Does anyone else in the world?
The word "Lodestar" is built on ancient words that mean '#Lode (built on ancient words for 'a Way, a Course, something to be |Followed') + #Star (sharing a root (*ster-) with |Asterisk, Asteroid, |Astro-, |Constellation, Disaster, the name |Estella, the name Esther, |Inter|stellar, |Stellar)' (old name for the Pole-star, which sailors would use to '|Lead the way' when |Land was Out-of-|Sight; it came to mean "a |Guiding |Force" (like an Ideal, Concept or |Leader)).
- George Bernard Shaw (in The Dark Lady of the Sonnets)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (in "Troilus & Criseyde")
- Jack Kemp (Pence's mentor)
- it's now the name of (science-fiction organization) Worldcon's YA-award
Besides Pence, other non-nautical users of the word 'Lodestar' include

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