Jul 17 2015

Funny things

Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those…  [more]

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Jul 04 2015

40 years after

Ode to Nam on the 40th Anniversary of its End

By J. Randall O’Brien, February 15, 2015   He came home from Nam But never made it back. I saw him last just before He left for the war. We…  [more]

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Jul 04 2015

An uneasy pressure

    Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose…  [more]

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Jun 23 2015

Every reason to resist

In Israel, we walk amongst killers and torturers

By , Jun. 22, 2015 12:48 AM   In our homes, our streets and our places of work and entertainment, there are thousands of people who killed and tortured thousands…  [more]

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Jun 22 2015

The Passion of George Zimmerman

We now know that Dylann Roof, the young man who murdered nine people in Charleston last week, left behind a manifesto.  And from it, we know that the killer’s Damascus-road conversion happened once he believed in the righteousness of the…  [more]

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Jun 16 2015

Tree of liberty

A Modest Proposal

By The Observer, June 11 2015   In recognition of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s recently opining that the open carry of firearms is, as he understands it, legal now under Arkansas law as long as the person…  [more]

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Jun 13 2015

A quiet, respectful carnival

Champagne days

By Will Stephenson, April 02, 2015   1. A weekend in Hot Springs. City of ghosts and cracked porcelain doorknobs. Where old-world tourism once bloomed in the shadow of the Ouachita Mountains — a place of yellowed…  [more]

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