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Since our world is becoming smaller with ever more increasing contact between peoples of the world, it is important to remember that we are all human, we all breathe the same air, we all love our children, and we all are mortal.  As Jimmy Carter said in his recent acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace […]

The Real Lessons of 9/11 by Mike Gravel

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As we mark the six anniversary of the 9/11 attack, it is time for Americans to face the real lessons of that horrible morning. Until we dispel the myths which the Bush administration and a compliant media have been feeding us, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes and suffer similar consequences.
Lesson 1: They […]

Today I happened upon a copy of the New York Daily News, a paper I rarely read.  Yet as per the mysterious world in which we live where things have a purpose, in my reading of the paper on this day, I had a complete identification with a story written by famed sportswriter Mike Lupica.  […]

Between 1840 and 1980 every President elected in the score year (a year divided by 20) has died in office.  Some may say Ronald Reagan didn’t die, but he was a  victim of an assasination attempt which he survived.  Maybe he died but he forgot.  Maybe that was uncalled for humor.  But now we have […]

Having just been to Minneapolis this past weekend, I took special interest in the bridge calamity of earlier this week. However, I do not want to write about the specifics of the problem of this bridge, or any other infrastructure problems across America. I write to discuss how focused the media gets on […]

The news continues about the debate of a few nights ago and I figure being the loud voice that I am with the readership I command, it was time to weigh in.
I agree with Borack Obama. A candidate for President must be ready NOW for the job. I do not want a […]

The New York Times today reports that a key government official actually said that if the US pulls out of Iraq there might be grim consequences, especially the infiltration of outsiders looking to create havoc in Iraq or looking to take it over.
What news! Didn’t anyone listen to what critics of the war […]

For the past six years in America there has been a government for those people, by those people and of those people. Unfortunately, that the founding fathers’ message. The checks and balances written into our constitution were expressly written to avoid a President having absolute control over all facets of American life. […]