On June 16th Bruce Barcott writes in the LA TIMES about Abby Sunderland’s parents, describing them as applying brave parenting techniques to their daughter, sending her off to traverse the world in a forty foot sailing vessel, ALONE.
I DISAGREE. Bruce is wrong. He may well have been dead wrong. I believe that the purpose...
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Brave Parenting or Child Endangerment
Death on the Rio Grande
A fifteen year old Mexican boy was shot and killed yesterday on the banks of the Rio Grande. The story reached the LA Times this morning. This lad and some of his friends were playing and fooling around down by the river on the...
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Brown on Brown, Heart Ache on Heart Ache
Did you ever think that Arizona and the Salem witch trials would have something in common? How about Arizona and the incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II? As hard as it is to say: In 1941 it was don’t be Oriental...
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When 41 Senators Stomp Democracy Into The Senate Floor
Massachusetts elects a new Senator and suddenly the party that had sixty votes, a super majority, has fifty-nine. And they are crying? How is that? One election, one new Senator and healthcare legislation is in jeopardy? Personally, I don’t like the present bill. Who wants...
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On Having Broad Shoulders, Being Politically Correct, and Harry Reid
Senator Harry Reid apologized recently for opening his mouth and speaking. I don’t know what he said and for the most part I really don’t care. The world isn’t going to stop turning because Harry Reid uttered something racial, inane, and stupid. It, however,...
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