Archives in Category: Politics

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Terri

Posted on March 24, 2005

By the time I finish writing this, my opinion could be obsolete because one woman in Jeb Bush’s Florida might have already died. That woman, Terri Schiavo, has been the focal point of news bulletins and legal briefs as various

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Chinatown

Posted on March 2, 2005

Years ago there was a movie called “Chinatown” which featured Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. On the surface, it was a murder mystery; but underneath it was about power and who exerts it. Water and its uses formed the basis

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Crisis

Posted on February 25, 2005

The news is all around us, both subtle and blatant. Our country is in a crisis; no, in fact, our country is in several crises. I know, because I read and hear about them everywhere.

There’s the war on terror

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Color

Posted on January 17, 2005

Bracelets are once again a political statement, thanks to some entrepreneurs who are selling red rubber ones and blue rubber ones so that people can proclaim their political preference on their wrists.

It isn’t the first time the bracelet has

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Lunker’s

Posted on January 15, 2005

If you are born and raised in Southwestern Michigan, there’s more than a fifty-fifty chance that you love the outdoors. And, if you love the outdoors, there are even better odds that you have been to Lunker’s in Edwardsburg.

Now

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JFK

Posted on November 22, 2004

Forty-one years ago today John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then President of the United States, was shot to death in Dallas, TX. Anybody who was a teenager or older at the time remembers exactly where he or she was when the news

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Battleground State

Posted on November 10, 2004

If this title makes you think I have reneged on my word not to discuss the recent election in public, never fear. Instead, read on.

I had a sad experience yesterday when my friend, Carol, and I visited the Tippecanoe Battlefield

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Supreme Decision

Posted on October 26, 2004

The press announced yesterday that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Renquist has cancer, the third of nine justices to meet this fate in recent years. The news seemed good, in that his cancer was caught in time and

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Ground Rules

Posted on September 29, 2004

“So,” I said to Earl over our usual morning coffee, “what would you think of creating some ground rules for watching the first debate tomorrow night? I mean, in the same room?”

He looked dubious. After all, we are rooting for

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Thirty-Five Days

Posted on September 28, 2004

Five weeks – that is, thirty-five days — from today is the national election to determine who will be the President of the United States of America. While I am eager to learn the outcome, (and definitely have a preference

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