ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY… (…and it’s not just against external threats) A rather disturbing item showed up in our mailbox the other day. It was a particularly partisan political solicitation for support couched in very extreme terms.
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WHY SHOULD RACE STILL MATTER TODAY IN AMERICA? (…is it because we continue to insist on making it matter?) Our perspectives on issues of “race” or “color” are probably atypical from that of most Americans. The main reason for that
GOING IN HALF-APP… (…when full-bore is the need) We’ve said it many times before…there’s no other place on earth worth one drop of American blood, or, one American soldier’s life…least of all anywhere in the Middle East, and especially in…Iraq.
A TEAPOT TEMPEST ROARS ON (…manufactured from hypocritical outcries) Mr. Snowden’s so-called whistle blowing revelations about the NSA’s wide ranging mega-data collection methods are not news. The process has been going on for many years. That’s its task which, we
CHARITY IS FINE (…but shouldn’t it begin here…at home?) This is the time of year when we receive all sorts of solicitations from a wide variety of charitable organizations. It is the nature of non-profit charitable entities to be on
IF SYRIA ISN’T A FAILED STATE… (…what is?) The chaos and slaughter in Syria continues unabated. As for the international community, by and large, it continues to sit vulture-like on the sidelines, watching and waiting to see what part of