Category Archives: Commentary

“Is Jersey open?”

7/28/2005 – 8:13 am

In 1963, with the collaboration of the Delaware Highway Patrol, producers for the television program “Candid Camera” set up on the Pennsylvania-Delaware border a sawhorse with a sign on it that said, “Delaware is Closed Today.” A man, dressed in what vaguely looked like a uniform, told drivers Delaware was closed for repairs and that […]

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Chronology of a Crime

7/21/2005 – 9:51 am

February 2002 – At the request of the Central Intelligence Agency, retired diplomat Joseph Wilson travels to Niger to investigate reports that the African nation was selling “yellowcake” – lightly processed uranium ore – to Iraq. He concludes the “yellowcake” reports are without merit. 28 Jan. 2003 – Ignoring reports from Mr. Wilson and the […]

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The Plame Game

7/14/2005 – 8:30 am

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is in a federal jail cell in Alexandria, Virginia. She may be there for up to four months for refusing to answer special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s questions about her confidential sources in the Valerie Plame leak case. Good for Judith Miller, sort of. More on that later. Time magazine […]

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A Death Worth Dying

7/7/2005 – 1:09 pm

On the seventh day of the seventh month in the fourth year of the War on Terror, death came to another western capital, in the form of bombs in London’s transportation system. The leaders of the Group of Eight nations, meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland are repeating their boilerplate speeches about resolve, but what can they […]

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No Child Sent Away

6/30/2005 – 9:53 am

Although polls show Americans’ support for the war in Iraq is slipping, the public is not of one mind. Some oppose the war, some support it; many have mixed feelings. Just as soldiers in combat fight for each other and not for an ideology or a political position, there are issues on the home front […]

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La Danse Macabre

6/23/2005 – 9:42 am

Vermont is in the middle of a federal murder trial that may lead to our state’s first execution in 51 years. In November 2000, Donald Fell and Robert Lee killed Mr. Fell’s mother and her boyfriend in Rutland, Vermont, then carjacked Teresca King, drove her across the New York state line and killed her. Mr. […]

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Legitimate Aspirations

6/16/2005 – 6:15 am

The war in Iraq, like the war in Vietnam, is a quagmire, but where does the comparison end? There’s a wall in Washington, DC that says the Vietnam War lasted 16 years and cost 58,000 American lives. Let’s hope we don’t match those statistics before we bring the troops home. As in Vietnam, it’s been […]

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