I haven’t written an entry for a few days because I’ve actually been working on one of my more “in-depth” pieces. Tonight, while doing some fact-checking on comments about a haircut for Bill Clinton that supposedly shut down Los Angeles International Airport in 1993 (according to a cadre of Republican politicians and conservative talk show […]

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I didn’t write these words, but I wish I had: I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It […]

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There was a sad and remarkable juxtaposition of news articles on the web Friday. I saw the same thing on many news websites but the San Francisco Gate (sfgate.com), probably intentionally, put these two articles back to back: (05-28) 09:06 PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — Two young relatives were arrested in the deaths of three children […]

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This blog has a small number of readers ranging from a low of about 80 to a high of about 125 per day and an even smaller number of commenters. In other words, it cannot be said that this is a very influential blog. It provides, however, a microcosmic view of what’s going on in […]

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The Bush Administration seems to have a very odd view of G-d, or at least of the meaning of words that refer to G-d.

Frankly, one wonders whether they were trying to perpetrate a fraud on the Supreme Court.

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