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Obama Wins
After all the years of spin and downright falsehood, of declarations maintained in the teeth of incovenient facts, of a klaxon truthiness that threatened to drown out truth, what we Americans want more than anything from our President is plain truth. We don’t want to be lulled into stupor with comforting words or “economic stimulus…
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A Halloween Reflection
Sometimes it’s good to remember how fleeting popularity is. President Bush’s popularity is the lowest of any President since Richard Nixon was forced from office by scandal. Yet for a few months following September 11, 2001, he was golden. The man hasn’t changed, but our perception of him has. Once he rose to the occasion,…
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Halloween
One of my earliest memories is of dressing up to go trick-or-treating. My mom draped a sheet over me and I wore a ghostly mask. My younger brother watched the whole process, but whenever I put the mask on he would cry in terror. If I took it back off, he would stop crying. I…