Yes, it’s recess time for the US Congress, and there are some red faces in Congress because the Wall Street Journal and the local newspaper in Seattle just noticed a cushy trip to the Galapagos, the Great Barrier Reef, and the South Pole as a fact finding trip to discover “global warming”. One would think [...]

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Like its principal characters, ABC’s series Lost has had a checkered history. After a blistering first two seasons, viewing figures declined to unanticipated lows. That prompting some doomsayers to wonder if the show might be canceled. Thankfully for anyone wrapped up in the complex mythology of Lost, ABC was not so rash. The series then [...]

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Half a century ago I spent 3 years preparing to be ordained in the clergy — which I did not do because my teachers had taught me that our religions had begun to degenerate into fixations with war, hatred, revenge, killing. I had been drawn rather to the Christian Gospel of compassion — for the [...]

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At least it wasn’t necessary this time to ask, “Where’s the outrage?” The staid, liberal Washington Post had the answer ready for us in an editorial this morning: “Scot-Free.” The Post called the release of the mass murderer of the Lockerbie bombing “a travesty of justice.” It was the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s pardon [...]

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I think it is fair to say that Dreamer is a complex book that works on many levels, different people will interpret the story in different ways. At the most simplistic level it is an action thriller concerning a group of Vietnam veterans that are once more called to arms, by a comrade who invokes [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert As a “blogger” I am held accountable for what I say. Bloggers are being sued and held libel for their comments. People who comment on blogs are now coming under fire. For years I’ve put myself out there making a concerted effort to educate, inform and try help out mankind [...]

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Victims of domestic violence suffer physical and emotional trauma at the hands of their abusers. Some don’t escape these relationships alive. But even for those who are fortunate enough to get out with their lives, their ordeal isn’t necessarily over. In many cases their tormentors still pose a threat to them and their children. And [...]

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I grew up in a Republican family and Republican communities. Had I not had an exchange year at a British public school and seen first hand how things were done by the British, I most likely would not have made the change to becoming a Democrat in college. At that time the Republicans were decent [...]

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I suspect that Obama will achieve most of his goals for health care. The people want it. People will become increasingly aware that they are being conned both by the profit oriented health industry and its lackeys in politics. Few of us have not been abused by this industry and decent medical people also want [...]

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I enjoy children’s books, I guess I am a child at heart. I actually think that the genre is much misunderstood. A children’s book is not a simple project, the author has many variables to contend with, not least of which is balancing the entertainment value that the child perceives with the educational value that [...]

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