An American…or something… at heart
I want you to root for me. That’s the admonition Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s CEO, gave to 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl. Immelt is in the news because Obama appointed him to lead the task force...
View ArticleState of the Union Recap
So here’s what I did like - the idea of bringing jobs back to this country. I amen this: It’s time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs...
View ArticleBeheadings & Wagging Fingers & Brewer
“Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856–1941) # If large numbers of...
View ArticleAn Invitation of Honor
Several of my friends are headed to the White House. They are having breakfast with President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The invitation to breakfast belongs to an inclusive group. This group...
View ArticleThen and Now
I grew up during a time and place where the only blacks in the schools were those working in the cafeteria. Or in the bathrooms. Janitors. Cooks. Those were the jobs available to blacks in those days....
View ArticleMurder repeats itself
This weekend marks the anniversary of the murder of Karly Sheehan. Had she not been killed by her mother’s boyfriend, Karly Sheehan would be celebrating the end of yet another year of elementary...
View ArticleThis presidential election: Why I don’t care
I don’t care who will win the upcoming presidential election. I really don’t. Oh. I will vote. I believe in voting. Good men and women have suffered and died for my right to vote, and I will forever be...
View ArticleDid this administration “off” Michael Hastings?
I’m not much of one for conspiracy theories. Oh, I’ve watched the occasional movie and read a handful of books about such things, but overall, I tend to believe that people are too busy doing their...
View ArticleWhen the gift isn’t good enough
“God, you are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon. The crescent is very beautiful and perhaps that is all I should or could...
View ArticlePurple Heart Recipient Jed Zillmer: American Tragedy
His life ended in a one-sided shoot-out. Police said he wanted it that way. They said Afghanistan war veteran Jed Zillmer was on a suicidal mission: Kill or be killed. He was allegedly heavily armed...
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