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WHAT’S UP? WILL UP IS!

Remember the dictum “Never trust anyone over thirty?” I hated that, since I was in my thirties during the big Sixties hoo-haw. By that time I had worked full time in campaigns and during the seventies was even getting paid to do what I had done as a volunteer. So I thought I knew something [...]

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Some Days I Feel Like Cassandra

So much has happened since I wrote my blog on February 13 in the mist of the Susan Komen controversy I am literally out of breath.  My analogy of the motor boat was apt, but right now it looks like a jet plane is about to take off in the other direction. At least, I hope so. [...]

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Abortion, Public Policy & the Consequences of Myopic Focus

The publicity surrounding the support of Planned Parenthood by the Susan G. Komen Foundation brings into stark reality the truth pro-abortion/anti-abortion controversy. In that form it doesn’t exist. No one is pro-abortion. It is always a last and often desperate option. The revulsion, whether religiously inspired or not, toward the act is fully understandable. In [...]

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The Word Plastic

The Word Plastic

Every once in a while I meditate on the word plastic. I always want to pronounce it the way the French do, plastique. This in turn brings up an image of some sort of gooey gel used to blow things up. Plastic—malleable, easily formed—that was the original meaning of the word and somehow it has [...]

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Answer to a Constant Complaint

Answer to a Constant Complaint

The news media is always whining that the Occupy Wall Street movement is not specific about their aims and demands. I have a simple answer for them: GET THE INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF MY HEALTH CARE And GET THE NEWS MEDIA OUT OF MY ELECTIONS The first one is relatively easy to understand and would [...]

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Listen Up Liberals!

Listen Up Liberals!

It’s time to educate yourselves by consulting a conservative. No, you don’t have to listen to Beck, Hannity, the various Foxes or any of those people. You don’t even have to read David Brooks, but he is an old dear who actually says something original upon occasion. Grab that lefty rag, the New York Times [...]

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