Hometown Boy
A post from Natalie Davis brought back some old memories today: I am spending some time listening to the newest release from one of my longtime favorite artists, Dan Fogelberg. Some time back, I...
Author: James Landrith
Someone’s Earned a Beatdown
CBC News on Pellet lodges in boy's brain after shooting: No surgery has been scheduled for a five-year-old boy who was shot in the face with a high-powered pellet gun, doctors in Toronto said...
Letter: Representative Moran re: U.N. Funding
July 15, 2003 Representative Moran July 15, 2003 The Honorable James P. Moran U.S House of Representatives 2239 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4608 Dear Representative Moran: Now is the time to stop...
Cowardly Tribunals
The Economist on Unjust, unwise, unAmerican: YOU are taken prisoner in Afghanistan, bound and gagged, flown to the other side of the world and then imprisoned for months in solitary confinement punctuated by interrogations...
Habitual Liar
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on False in One, False in All: When I was a newspaper reporter covering the criminal courts in Pennsylvania, lawyers always told juries they were entitled...
Can’t You Smell That Smell?
CBC News on Vicks VapoRub helps cubs find mom: When conservationists in Manitoba found four orphaned polar bear cubs roaming the streets of Churchill, they knew they had to do something. They couldn't risk...
When Is It Really Over?
Col. David H. Hackworth on Bring what on? On May 1, George W. Bush landed in a military jet on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with all the pomp and ceremony of...
One Voice, One View
John deLaubenfels of Strike The Root on Clueless Army Wives: A recent article in the Guardian tells of the frustration of military families in Hinesville, "The Fastest Growing Town in South-Eastern Georgia," adjacent to...
‘Digging’ With Microwaves
Hazel Morris of New Scientist on Satellites hunt for buried treasure: In a first for radar sensing, researchers have shown the technology can locate and identify buried objects. Their technique could be used in...