Month: August 2013

Set a Positive Example

For obvious reasons, everyone is talking today (on it’s 50th anniversary), about Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech. But I thought you would enjoy an excerpt from a different speech. This speech was delivered...

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Who To Trust?

I wish that I was able to believe anyone on this Syria thing, but the truth is that I trust no one anymore. Who has credibility? Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, added a new level of complexity to the...

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Casual Observation

I take a special satisfaction whenever I see state-level Republicans have to swallow their own b.s. and pass the Medicaid expansion provided for in the Affordable Care Act. The Michigan Senate even had to break their version of...

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Something to Chew On

The Arab League isn’t endorsing any kind of military reprisals in Syria, and neither are most Arabs: The vast majority of Arabs are emotionally opposed to any Western military action in the region no matter how...

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We Have to Do Something, Stupid

I can’t believe how stupid our foreign policy elites really are. I’m not going to argue that they have any good or easy choices, but Jesus: A wide range of officials characterized the action under consideration as...

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