Author: teacherken

There is an article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer (registration required) entitled Peace churches plan alternatives to military draft.  It gets the name of the President of Haverford College (my alma mater) wrong....

Earlier today I posted  a diary on TIM KAINE  – what’s he like??? based on my speaking with and observing him at a fundraiser here in Arlington VA where I live.  That fundraiser was for him. Tonight he...

With no Federal elections this year and with New Jersey considered to be a probably Democratic victory., the Governor’s race in Virginia is probably the most closely watched race this year.  Yesterday, Thursday June...

is offered in today’s Boston Globe by Robert Kuttner in his op-ed piece  Head in the sand.   I suggest taking some time to glance at it.   I will offer a very few selections and then list the topics he...

In the light of the revelation of the role of Mark Felt as “Deep Throat, perhaps it is time for a complete reevaluation of the presidency of Richard Nixon.  James Carroll, an op-ed writer for the Boston Globe, offers...