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Sweet home Alabma?

I don’t have anything against Alabama.I’ve never gone there.Chances are, if I’m allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn’t.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...

One measly political argument

Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.LetĢƵ take measles.Back in 2000, AmericaĢƵ medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...

Let the Republican games being

Well, it looks like more than a dozen Republicans are already lining up to stake a claim on the 2016 presidential nomination.Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, ...

Giuliania plain wrong about Obama

We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest country on earth.President Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2012Oh Rudy!“AmericaĢƵ Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani, thinks he knows President Obama better than Obama knows himself.RudyĢƵ wrong. Come to think of it, heĢƵ really no longer “AmericaĢƵ ...

Come home Bobby Jindal

On Jan. 10, a Fox News guest – Nolan Peterson – proclaimed that France is awash in so-called “No-Go zones,” where Muslims have taken over, and not even French Gendarmes can patrol the streets.Peterson claimed “I’ve been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kashmir (in India) – and at times it ...

My 2015 Year in Review

Anybody with a keyboard, it seems, published their 2014 “Years in Review.”And if they didn’t review the year, they compiled “Top 10” lists of: world news stories; local news stories; political news stories; financial news stories; movies; TV shows; sporting events, or technological ...