Category Archives: Commentary

The Rules

12/15/2005 – 9:46 am

Grade school is where you learn the rules. You’re told there is one set of rules and they apply to everyone equally. Immediately thereafter, you’re shown the rules don’t apply to everyone equally. Few rules applied to some students, whose families are prominent in the community or whose elder siblings were star pupils. Other students […]

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Time to Pay Up

12/8/2005 – 10:59 am

It’s time, beyond time really, for America to confront the issue of slavery reparations. It’s an issue that rarely emerges in the national discussion and when it does, it’s the source of enormous controversy. It should not be controversial; an egregious injury was inflicted on Africans, later African-Americans, on this continent. That injury, which in […]

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The New Abortion

12/1/2005 – 10:04 am

The fear with avian flu is that it will mutate into a form transmissible from human to human through aerosol means (i.e., coughing and sneezing). Epidemiologists believe that with the breadth avian flu has already achieved, this mutation is just a matter of time and probably not much time. Health officials are confident a vaccine […]

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Over the Top

11/24/2005 – 9:39 am

Thanksgiving is a past tense holiday; present tense at best. It’s not about the future, except as a subject for meditation. We can today reflect on what we’ve done with what we’ve been given and how we might use those gifts to shape our future. A worthy exercise for any last Thursday in November, it […]

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Below the Fold

11/17/2005 – 1:00 pm

George W. Bush’s polling numbers continue to seek new lows. Even Republicans in the Senate are lining up behind resolutions pressuring the White House to set a timetable for getting out of Iraq and banning torture. Could our long, national nightmare be coming to an end? Are we turning a corner? Is there light at […]

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What Will It Take?

11/10/2005 – 9:55 am

My country invaded a nation was not a threat to ours. We didn’t have good intelligence before the invasion and when I write “we” I mean the citizens and, apparently, the Congress. As far as we can tell, the vice-presidential-Pentagon cabal that runs our government had good intelligence, but instead cooked up a pack of […]

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The Tonya Harding Defense

11/3/2005 – 10:35 am

A week after Harriet Miers withdrew her name from consideration for Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the Supreme Court, the search for a qualified candidate goes on. Yes, George Bush nominated Samuel Alito Monday morning, yes, Mr. Alito has experience as a constitutional lawyer and yes, 15 years behind the bench on the Third Circuit […]

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