Month: January 2014

J-Rube’s Pointless Water-Carrying

If allowing the Pearl Harbor attacks to happen hasn’t much tarred Franklin Roosevelt’s reputation, it is unclear to me why Hillary Clinton should be subject to so much abuse about the tragic loss of American lives in...

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Three Hopeful Middle East Headlines Today

. Israel’s captains of industry fear boycott (Ynet News) – A hundred of Israel’s leading businessmen and businesswomen will fly to Davos next week, armed with a poignant message for the prime minister:...

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The Price For Letting Them Off Easy

Things that make me want to sanitize my brain by dunking my head in a bucket of iodine: As George W. Bush’s public image improves, more former Bush officials are running for office — and are starting to tout their...

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An Unpublished Writer, 1922-2013 #4

Mom wrote a lot of poems covering a wide range of feelings. Here are four of them. The first two are polar opposites, and the last two were written within weeks of the births of her grand daughters. VITAL SIGNS The vacuum that...

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Two Things I Never Thought I’d Hear

The president is quoted today saying some things I never expected a president to say. Maybe it is a sign of the times or maybe it’s the liberation of not needing to seek reelection or maybe it’s just Obama, but...

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