If anyone is wondering how much damage a lame-duck administration can manage on its way to historical infamy (or at best, oblivion), here’s what our Secretary of State had to say in response to the IAF attacks on Gaza (reminiscent, to this poor student of history, of the Stuka dive-bomber attacks on civilian populations in Spain …
Category: America
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Dec 24 2008
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Folksinger John McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches” — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA The following is from Jim Wallis’ (www.sojo.net) weekly email: Silent Night, by Stanley Weintraub, is the story of Christmas Eve, 1914, on the World War I battlefield in Flanders. As the German, British, and French troops facing each other were settling in for the night, a …
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Nov 13 2008
Think race wasn’t an issue?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/12/politics/horserace/entry4596620.shtml?source=search_story 16% of the people who voted for McCain said they would have voted for Hillary had she been in the race. 21% of those admitted race was a factor, but 96% of that 16% were either white or Hispanic, so go figure… Sounds like the Bradley Effect is still alive and well in America.
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Nov 02 2008
Caesar or God?
To my pastor: Appreciated today’s reminder that God is still sovereign, even if Americans don’t vote for Obama. I wish you could have reminded people to try to rise above any lingering racism or other prejudices when deciding to vote. And to consider a broader, holistic what-would-Jesus-do approach to voting rather than the myriad single-issue, divide-and-conquer strategies being peddled every …
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Oct 28 2008
My mother’s kid brother
From Ray Close: Eddy and the Mideast Joseph C. Goulden OP-ED: Middle East veterans of a certain era – the World War II era into the 1950s – speak with respectful awe of William A. Eddy. Soldier, scholar, statesman, spy, Arabist – of him a colleague said, “Bill Eddy was probably the nearest thing that …
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Oct 12 2008
So long Charley
Dear editor: Molly Ivins is long gone and Charley Reese has thrown in the towel. All we’re left with now are the sanitized opinions of neocon apologists like Rich Lowrey, who just happens to be editor of the arch-conservative National Review. There are still a few good writers out there but you’ll have to scour …
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Sep 04 2008
POW
Labor Day has always had a double meaning for my family. Twenty-four years ago and two weeks earlier than expected, my wife went into labor on Labor Day, and the next day Jennifer was born. It was the last time my children were ever early for anything… We just spent the Labor Day weekend visiting my daughter …
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