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By Jefferson Flanders As New York’s man-about-town columnist Jimmy Cannon used to say: Nobody asked me, but… “THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD,†argued Gavin Stevens, a character in William Faulkner’s 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun, “It’s not even past.” Two stories about America’s dark, complicated legacy of slavery that surfaced this past week made […]
Forty two years ago this week, Selma, Alabama was the scene of one of the most enduring and violent images in the struggle for civil rights.
A lot of the misunderstanding about Iraq is the failure to see the thousand plus year divide between Sunni and Shiia Islam. The Farsi Shiia are not the same as the Arab Shia, but the meddling of Iran into Iraq can be understood not only as Iranian mullah’s mischiefmaking but as supporting their fellow Shia. […]
I have always thought that the profession of Historian would be an idyllic one. You get to wear a comfy hunting jacket (you knows, the ones with the leather patches on the elbows), and while smoking a meerschaum pipe and sipping from a glass of fine Cognac, peruse musty smelling old documents in a dimly […]
Bruce Alpert, of the Time Picayune did an excellent article concerning all the recent prosecutions for fraud in the Katrina and Rita hurricanes. One woman, LaWanda Williams collected $267,377.15 in an identity theft scheme using several other people’s information. I wonder if any of the people (who had their information stolen) were denied benefits, as […]
Fresh perspectives by: Whymrhymer Valentines Day 2007 was a day for lovers, but not all lovers. This Valentines Day the Alabama Supreme Court rendered a decision that people who’s loving relationships included “sex toys” we’re out of luck, at least in Alabama, where the law that prohibited their “commercial distribution” (i.e., sales) was allowed to […]
Clearly paying no heed to German EU industry commissioner Verheugen’s warning about hysterischer Aktionismus (hysterical, unexamined action or activity) in matters concerning climate protection, and caught red-handed helping Germany cheat on the CO2 emission targets set for it at Kyoto, a group of mad (as in angry) and panicked German scientists has been caught pumping […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog One of the tactics of the appeaser or apologist is the use of disinformation. They use this tactic deliberately or even without their knowledge as useful idiots. In this case, it’s a deliberate attempt to paint the Judeo-Christian culture as the enemy of civilization. Robert Spencer from JihadWatch writes in […]
News Item: Astrologers and Feng Shui experts claim lunar eclipse emits bad energy. Full Story: Sunday Times Cartoon from Sid in the City
[This is not much of news item in the U.S. and this particular gathering may not produce much in the way of direct action, but it is emblematic of the Latin American break away from American corporate domination that for so long curbed the development and destabilized democracies in that region. Ed Kent] ………………………….. * […]
[They are both now gone, but one of the familiar sights a decade or so back that one would see on street corners near Columbia were the engaged conversations of Sidney Mortgenbesser and Edward Said (pictured with Obama at the website below). Sidney was a very dear friend and mentor during my graduate student days […]
(London, UK) Influential British parliamentarian, Lee Scott MP for Ilford North has initiated a major debate on special educational needs and autism on March 7th 2007. The debate is attacting huge attention in parliament in London and in the UK media. Lee Scott MP plans to put the spotlight firmly on Autism and he will […]
Then I first heard of Zhao Chun Li, I didn’t know what the fuss was all about. I had been told that she ha brittle bone disease (OI) and was working at the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat as the Front Desk Supervisor. I thought to myself, Yes, this is a nice story about overcoming adversity. And […]
It was absolutely mind blowing to watch and witness Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore at the Academy Awards. Oh how everyone swooned over them and their pseudo persona of what many view as intelligentsia du jour. Interestingly, however, it is hard to fathom that any one voting block could pull off this unadulterated charade on […]
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