I was perusing my old email archives, just nosing around and cleaning things up when I found this old email from December 19, 2000. What caught my eye was the […]
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
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. […]
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Blog Love
Kathleen Parker on Blogs breaking logjam of journalism: If not for blogs, Howell Raines might still be editor of The New York Times; Trent Lott might still be majority leader […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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‘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 […]
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