Oct 14 2016

Thank you!

  Dear editor, We the People are about to roll the dice and elect our next president.  Just enough time left to dash off a few well-deserved thank you notes… So first of all, a great big thank you to…  [more]

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Oct 13 2016

2020 is already under way

Growing Cotton in Iowa

The Economist, Oct 15th 2016   AS THE election of 2016 lurches to an unmourned end, it feels cruel to report that the presidential race of 2020 is already under way. This haste makes sense, at…  [more]

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Oct 13 2016

Fooled

    Dear editor: OK, we have the mainstream media against Trump from the beginning. Constant negatives and none for Hillary. Progressives obviously control the media. Hopefully our voters are educating themselves with alternative means of news besides the mainstream…  [more]

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Oct 12 2016

Cheez Whiz and lye

  Dear editor: Mister Sniffles’ ardent fans often attempt a diversionary tactic to deflect each and every criticism of their much-prayed-for sweet potato.  It’s an old debating trick to ignore the critics and instead demand an immediate and compelling explanation…  [more]

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Oct 05 2016

Act in haste, repent in leisure

Another Deadly Drone Mistake: At What Point Do We Say Enough?

By Ted Gup, October 3, 2016   It was an obscure item last week that drew little media attention. An apartment building in Afghanistan’s remote Nangarhar province was…  [more]

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Sep 28 2016

Peacemaker!

Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. I’ll never forget the sight of pouring blood and burning bodies at Qana

By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 28 September 2016 11:00 BST   When the world heard that Shimon Peres had died, it…  [more]

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Sep 21 2016

The full measure of its guilt

“Some People Push Back”: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

By Ward Churchill, September 12, 2001   When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite…  [more]

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