Friday, January 29, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Haiti Postpones Presidential Runoff Vote - The New York Times
I would so love to get back to this story. Thought I had started a blog some time ago, but I guess I never even got to that point.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Ireland's Easter Rising and how history is being twisted in celebrating the struggle for independence | UK Politics | News | The Independent
Reminds of that great volume of American history entitled The Definitive History of Northern Aggresion as Recounted by a Southern Plantation Owner.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Why Doctors Need To Have Answers For Patients' Questions About Costs : Shots - Health News : NPR
I certainly feel like I am a kindred spirit to Mrs. SUTTON! Bravo for the doctor writing this!
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
posting no gun signs nc - Google Search
I'd like to know more about where the law and practice is on this issue.
This evangelical Christian professor might lose her job for reaching out to Muslims | Public Radio International
I continue to hear NOTHING from this college that makes me regard it with anything but disdain and chagrin. All I can say is that the professor surely has my full support, and I hope many millions of other people in the US.
Friday, January 08, 2016
Voter app matches you with a presidential candidate - Business Insider
I'd like to see one more nuanced - allowing me to pick issues that are really important and those that are not. Then tell me whom I should support.
Money, politics and ideas are getting terribly jumbled in the knee-jerk debate about campaign finance. What money buys is the opportunity to share an idea with more people. If we are going to succeed as a country, we need citizens who are educated and smart enough to sift through these ideas and pursue the truth in the process. That is, after all, the rationale that underlies our system of freedom of expression.
Money, politics and ideas are getting terribly jumbled in the knee-jerk debate about campaign finance. What money buys is the opportunity to share an idea with more people. If we are going to succeed as a country, we need citizens who are educated and smart enough to sift through these ideas and pursue the truth in the process. That is, after all, the rationale that underlies our system of freedom of expression.
Thursday, January 07, 2016
Barack Obama: Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility - The New York Times
I hope minds will get changed in all this.
‘I Would Check That Podium For a Raw Onion’: Tantaros Criticizes Obama’s Tearful Address | Mediaite
I join Trevor NOAH in saying that I am embarrassed to share the human race with TANTAROS.
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Wheaton is planning to fire professor who said Muslims and Christians worship the same God - The Washington Post
They are free to do what they choose and I am free to say that I regard Wheaton with great regret and sadness that they could take themselves to such offensively low standards.
BBC World Service - Newshour, Harry Belafonte: still fighting injustice at 88
Never go to bed when you can see injustice in the world and there is something you can do to combat it. Words to that effect from BELAFONTE's mother, then unemployed. The exact words are at about 5 minutes into this audio.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Sunday, January 03, 2016
CNN to Host Obama Town Hall on Gun Violence - Hollywood Reporter
I'll be looking for someone to say that we have too many guns in the US --- but not holding my breath.
Saturday, January 02, 2016
Why the Post Office Makes America Great - The New York Times
For some reason, I fund what she writes to be be curious. Hard to pin down my reactions and won't try.
Friday, January 01, 2016
Obama Ready to Act Alone on Gun Control - WSJ
I sure stand behind him on anything he can do on this topic.
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