Month: January 2015

I Didn’t Think Washington Could Do That

I was never a David Petreaus hater. I saw him as a highly effective general who performed extremely well in a difficult and ignoble cause in Iraq. I didn’t chafe at the way he seemed to work the refs in Congress and the...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.491

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting a new painting in my continuing detour from the Cape May 2nd Empire Victorian house.  I will be using my usual acrylics on an 10 by 10 inch gallery-wrapped canvas....

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Stop the War on Terror, We Want to Get Off

Right about now seems like the right time to contend with the following analysis from Tom Engelhardt: Despite the several thousand Americans who died on September 11, 2001, the dangers of terrorism rate above shark attacks but...

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Giants Fans Don’t Forgive

Sometime in December, the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey interviewed Governor Chris Christie at Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton. More recently, “U.S. attorney Paul Fishman subpoenaed...

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