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April Love
The title refers to the song, not the month, although the month of April has much to praise. I listened to Pat Boone’s April Love on the car radio during a short drive on a lovely April day last week. As with…
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Nelson’s Crossing
A Good Day For World Peace
“It’s a good day for world peace.” – Joe Biden, April 24th, 2024 A very fine day for peace indeed! Nothing says “peace” quite like Stinger surface-to-air missiles and other air defense munitions, 155-millimeter shells, Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, cluster…
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Pro-Palestinian Is Not Antisemitism
You’ve gotta hand it to the Republican-led House of Representatives. They certainly know how to put on a good show. Such was the case this week when they voted Articles of Impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. His…
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Trump As Jesus
Support for Donald Trump has always been unfathomable, but “unfathomability” has reached dizzying new heights with the Trump-as-Jesus phase. This week a news piece on the Jesus phase featured an interview with a woman who oozed sincerity. How could she…
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Ask What You Can Do
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” This quote from John F. Kennedy, Jr’s Inaugural Address in 1961 seems rather quaint these days. Kennedy is remembered with a level…
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American Exceptionalism
It is hard – no, impossible – to reconcile the brilliant spring day outside my Colorado window with the brutal images from Gaza and from our southern border. We privileged Americans can escape the pain with a quick click of…
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Courts Won’t Save Us
Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision to hear Donald Trump’s absurd immunity case is disheartening. Among rationale observers there is little doubt about the lack of merit to the appeal. Many believe it is evidence of a Court in service of Trump’s…
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Male Violence
A great many of the problems that plague our nation and the world are rooted in a propensity for violence. The vast majority of these problems are created by or perpetuated by men. Men who turn too easily toward violence.…
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Love the One You’re With
Let me just put this right here: I would prefer an embalmed Joe Biden propped up in a wingback chair to Donald Trump on his best day – if there is such a thing. The brouhaha brought on by the…
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Uncomfortable Truth
We Americans have a serious incapacity for introspection. The so-called retaliatory strikes in the last 24 hours are a case in point. A disclaimer to at least limit angry responses: I don’t intend to minimize the impact of rabid fundamentalists…
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