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Thoughts the Morning After

Posted on January 4, 2008

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won in Iowa last night, although I can’t say theirs were decisive victories. I know they want to think that, and maybe the media promotes it; but let’s put the Democratic and Republican caucuses in

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Politically Astute

Posted on January 2, 2008

Nobody can call me politically astute; in fact, I’ve spent most of 2007 trying to avoid any discussions, debates, or debacles that reek of politics. But, with the Iowa caucus being held tomorrow, it’s time to become an educated voter.

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A Patriot

Posted on September 13, 2007

It all started when I programmed my new Sirius to specific stations ranging from fifties rock ‘n’ roll to classical to talk. Now I am not a devotee of talk radio at all, but I am getting ready to become

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John McCain

Posted on July 24, 2007

Last night Earl and I saw Senator John McCain speak at the local college. He was clearly running for president.

Weeks ago, I made up my mind that I will not become involved in the jockeying for presidential position that

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677 Days to Go

Posted on March 16, 2007

For Christmas, I received “The Out of Office Countdown 2007 Calendar.” It’s not only a calendar but also a compendium of unintentionally witty statements our president has made during his years in office. It will keep me laughing until George

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Campaign Crazies

Posted on February 20, 2007

Last week the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, became the latest candidate to announce he’s running for president. It drove me crazy. Not because he’s unqualified. That remains to be seen. Not because he’s an African American. That’s irrelevant

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Missing Molly

Posted on February 12, 2007

Molly Ivins, the syndicated liberal columnist who heralded from the same state as our current President, died about ten days ago after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was my age, sixty-two.

It was a surprise, not only because

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Hiroshima Day

Posted on August 6, 2006

Today is Hiroshima Day, the sixty-first anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in the world’s history. The United States holds the dubious distinction of having been the country that dropped it. And since then politicians, political scientists,

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Number One

Posted on May 15, 2006

Maybe I have my head in the sand when it comes to the topic of illegal immigration. I understand the problem is complex and so, by default, must be the solution. What I don’t understand is how some politicians —

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Lincoln

Posted on April 14, 2006

One hundred forty-one years ago today, Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States of America, succumbed to an assassin’s bullet. There is nobody alive now who remembers that ignominious event. Yet, historians still recall the drama of it. Book

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