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Does It Matter?

August 18, 2021

t seems impossible to avoid seeing heartrending stories of Afghanis who worked for us and their families desperately seeking a safe haven. If they pull off a miracle of getting to Kabul through territory controlled by the Taliban, they face a Kafkaesque American bureaucratic barrier. Actually, two.

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Now Hear This

October 31, 2020

aving been a foreign correspondent, the title of the video I have embedded quite naturally caught my attention. I expected to see something familiar. I should have known better. The video is a compilation by The New Yorker of impressions of this country by foreign correspondents assigned to the U.S. It always helps to see […]

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Class Warfare

March 4, 2018

he parasites scream “class warfare” if anyone dare propose the least constraint upon their ability to subjugate the rest of us. They pretend that we are the aggressor and they the victim. Pure unadulterated balderdash.  They initiated class warfare shortly after the invention of agriculture. They created kingdoms. They created subjects. They created serfdom.

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Accepting America

October 18, 2016

merica is in jeopardy. I survived the 8 years of a total incompetent W and his personal Rasputin. I considered becoming an expatriate but, though I had traveled the world for nearly 20 years, America is my home. Things have changed. We again have a total incompetent running for the presidency but this one is […]

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Greek Debt < German Debt

July 7, 2015

emper, temper, Angela. Ms. Merkel  certainly should be aware of 20th Century German history. It is ironic that Germany, of all governments, would be demanding debt repayment. Greek debt is a pittance compared to Germany’s forgiven debt following The Great War and WWII. Even Great Britain and France have not always honored their debts. But, […]

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God Is Hate

April 20, 2014

eally? God is hate? If you believe that these Republican leaders and their toadies are Christians, then one can draw no other conclusion. As a child I heard that people fear what they do not understand. It appears that Republicans have conflated fear with hate. It is the easiest strategy for appealing to bigots, racists, […]

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Disposable

September 27, 2010

All of the attention is on the Republican Pledge. Its 21 pages are supposed to tell voters what they promise. Not really. It’s simply a distraction. They deceived the people with the Contract in 1994. The Pledge is supposed to do the same in 2010. They will not accomplish any of the things they promise. […]

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Democracy or Republic?

July 11, 2008

Having been a politician, the addiction never goes away. The interest remains even though what you see continually sickens. My intensity of interest may account for the fact that matters which go unnoticed by others cause a ‘fingernails on the blackboard’ reaction in me. It is, therefore, perhaps my sensitivity to the question that makes […]

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