President Obama’s acceptance speech of the peace prize is worth listening to and reading. It certainly sets a standard that exceeds our grasp. It was an odd combination: the President declaring peace with a Colt 45 strapped to his hip, and sending 30,000 marines into Afghanistan to fill the breach. In a distant sort...
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The Ugly American Hasn’t Died. She’s in Jail in Italy.
December 8, 2009
Amanda Knox received her trial. It took the better part of two years. During those two years the Italian newspapers crucified her, a twenty year old exchange student from Seattle, Washington, an American. It seems that nothing else was happening in the...
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Maybe the Dead Died in Vain… But Does It Have to Continue?
November 24, 2009
We’ve lost nine hundred plus young men and women in Afghanistan, good soldiers all. It’s the same though. Death by war. The figure is well over four thousand in Iraq. It was over fifty thousand in Vietnam. These deaths, these losses, sadden...
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Cost: One Hundred Million Just to Talk
November 23, 2009
On Saturday, November 21, the U.S. Senate voted to allow the health care bill to reach the floor where it could be discussed. Not voted on. Not passed. Just for debate, just to talk about it. Some of the costs to talk...
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Oh Wanda, Wanda, How Could We?
November 18, 2009
Did you see the rendition of justice by chemicals? This story ran in the L.A. Times and the Salt Lake Tribune and probably a thousand other news rags: Wanda Barzee pleads guilty and is sentenced to 15 years by agreement. Two...
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