Sunday, October 18, 2009

West Point Honor Code

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As you have framed the issue, my friend, I believe the topic [the viability of an honor code] is the most important one we can discuss as gr...
Saturday, October 03, 2009

Yesterday's News

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Day One – Hour One: Cable news reports “CHICAGO ELIMINATED FROM CONSIDERATION TO HOST 2016 OLYMPICS” Daniel Shore, Dan Rather and Walter ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A Rally by Any Other Name

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A friend writes from his rally experience in Santa Fe: " Contrary to media reports, it was not an anti-Obama rally. It was overwhelmin...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Random Thoughts

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Just a few random thoughts: I certainly do not intend to diminish the dangers existing to primarily future generations in the proposed spen...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

A Response to a Review: "The Hurt Locker"

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Your reviewer’s simplistic review of “The Hurt Locker” dis serves your readers and the community. This independently produced film should be...

Let's Get Serious

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I have now read Palin's Facebook response to the President and regarding Section 1233(by now I expect it needs no further identification...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Iranian Elections

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Ayatollah Khamenei spoke (C-Span translation) at Tehran University about the Iranian election and the aftermath of demonstrations. He praise...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Judging the Judge

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I am increasingly sickened by the political rhetoric regarding Judge Sotomayor as exploited by the shallow, histrionic “news” media. The lat...
Friday, March 27, 2009

My Friend Proposes "term limits" for Congress ...

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I am reminded of another method for limiting legislative abuses: In the ancient republic of the Locrains "[a] Locrain who proposed any ...
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You say "revolution," my friend...

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My friend: You present an argument for a return of the American Revolutionary spirit to the citizens to retake control of a government for t...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

To Sue on 3/7/09

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My dear friend, you are most certainly correct that what is happening is frightening. And, more frightening is the fact that the fear is ju...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Seppuku

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As reported on nytimes.com today: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent U.S. senator gibed that executives of the troubled insurer American...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Stimulus and Support for the Presidency

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Senator Lindsey Graham is being interviewed on a Fox News program as I write this. He charges that the President has “failed” and has lost ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Life as a Voyage

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I ran across this quote tonight from the autobiography," Wanderer," of Sterling Hayden, an actor, and a member of the OSS during W...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A thought about Obama

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There is a long road ahead for him, but I appreciate President-elect Obama's having begun his day on the 19th of January with an unsched...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Cheney's farewell.

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According to a report moments ago – "Vice President Dick Cheney will be in a wheelchair during Tuesday's Presidential Inauguration...
Friday, January 02, 2009

A letter to a friend: Unions

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I have not been watching the auto industry issues very closely but I am concerned about some of what I read. My mother and father were both ...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Proportionate Terrorism 12/27/08 ?

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The article on NYTimes.com read simply "Israeli Gaza Strike Kills 225" and wounds some 700 Palestinians. The article gave an expla...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Government in Illinois

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Chicago/Illinois politicians generally hone their criminal talents from birth within the party system. They should be given some credit for...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

A note to the ASPCA

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I take issue with the decision to place an ASPCA ad calling attention to the great number of animals abandoned during the holidays during th...