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Month: November 2009
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As a longtime radio announcer on a former classical music station here used to say on a cloudy, dreary day as we have this morning, it’s an “introspective day.” My introspection today tells me that President Obama would show real courage by getting our troops OUT of both Afghanistan and Iraq soon, rather than later.…
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When people are hurting, they will turn to almost anyone who offers hope – even if that hope is nothing but a mirage. Today, as nearly one out of every five Americans are without work or are seriously underemployed, there is much hopelessness and this is virgin territory for demagogues. Enter Sarah Palin. There’s a…
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Ever since liberal-turned-conservative Ronald Reagan quoted Paine’s “We have it in our power to begin the world over again” at the 1980 Republican National Convention, conservatives have become Paine’s greatest champions. Just this year came Bob Basso’s YouTube videos “The Second American Revolution” and “We the People,” Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an…
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I fear for democracy. To survive, a democratic nation needs an educated citizenry and a citizenry that appreciates the values that created that Society. In the USA, we all praise our Founding Fathers (there were no women in the early forming of our government nearly 225 years ago) for setting a vision that has created…
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I can’t help but reflect on how difficult the world is becoming. President Obama is trying his mightiest, but the problems he is trying to resolve seem insurmountable. President Bush left this nation in a terrible state, due largely to two things: our involvement in unwinnable and unnecessary conflicts in the Middle East and a…
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Welcome to my newest blog. This is the first entry, and it’s a plea for common sense, common decency and common courtesy in public discourse. No one’s blogs, read maybe by a handful of relatives or supposed friends, will change the world to his or her liking. That’s all to the good: I’m not…
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