From October 18, 2002:U.S. Roman Catholic Church’s new sexual abuse policy was doomed from the start. The Bishops of the United States are either expert in Church law or have them on their staffs. From the start, they have been well aware that this policy went directly against existing Church law.Nothing in the twenty-four years [...]
Remember the Alamo
Feb 25th, 2004
Commandancy of the Alamo
Bexar, Fby. 24th, 1836
To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world
Fellow Citizens & Compatriots I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded [...]
The President on Outsourcing
Feb 24th, 2004
Remarks by the President to the Republican Governors Association
On national security, Americans have the clearest possible choice. Our opponents say they approve of bold action in the world, but only if no other government disagrees. I’m all for united action, and so are the 34 coalition partners we have in Iraq right now. But [...]
Village VoiceWhat was the body of evidence that prisoners were held back? A short list would include more than 1,600 firsthand sightings of live U.S. prisoners; nearly 14,000 secondhand reports; numerous intercepted Communist radio messages from within Vietnam and Laos about American prisoners being moved by their captors from one site to another; a series [...]
Over the last few days, sparked by a bluegrass song from the WW II era, I’ve been pondering the American heros that no one learns about anymore. I had never heard of Colin Kelly until I heard the song, and I suspect you haven’t either.Copyright ‘ Air Force MagazineOn the morning of Dec. 10, 1941, [...]
Gay Marriage
Feb 22nd, 2004
When the United States was formed, all sorts of arbitrary restrictions on an individual’s rights existed. Only men could vote. In many places, only men who owned property could vote. Slavery was legal. A man’s ability to vote or hold elected office was limited according to his age. And so on, and so on.Every single [...]
Proud Guardsmen were neither duped, embittered nor ashamed
Feb 20th, 2004
Fresh perspective from the lovely wife’s neck of the woods.Grand Forks HeraldBy Patrick C. Miller
GRAND FORKS – While we all share Lloyd Omdahl’s concern about North Dakota’s young men and women serving in Iraq in the National Guard, his characterization of them as being unwittingly duped into combat and exploited by the Pentagon is insulting [...]
George Bush and Employment
Feb 19th, 2004
This graph grew out of the graph that follows. It came out so clearly that I decided to begin with it. It shows the percentage of the total population that was employed in each year from 1990 through 2003. It clearly demonstrates a decrease beginning in 2000, prior to Bush taking office. I would venture [...]
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It’s not Selma, folks. It’s more like requiring morbidly obese people to pay for two seats in an airliner. Unfair, perhaps, but no one ever promised life would be fair. Shove it down people’s throats and you’ll get the Constitutional Amendment. Take on the issue with a measure of calmness and civility and you may [...]
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