John McCain Is Our Nominee. Feel Safer Yet?
“My major concern is national security: I’ve got six granddaughters and a grandson. I want them to be absolutely safe in this country and to have the same freedom I’ve experienced,” said Rex Early, an Indianapolis insurance agency owner in response to a question at last weeks Republican Convention in Minneapolis St. Paul about his [...]
Remembering Bobby
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
Until, in our own despair,
Against our will,
Comes wisdom
Through the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
This was Robert Kennedy’s favorite poem, written by his favorite poet. He quoted it to a crowd of shocked and horrified onlookers at a rally in Indianapolis the night Dr. [...]
The Long Goodbye
The news this week of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy suffering from a malignant inoperable brain tumor was hard to take. Already the collective mind is being drawn to the month of June and the anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination and inevitably to Dallas and 1963 when first we learned the jarring news of President Kennedy’s [...]
Mission Accomplished: Five Years later
“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country”
…..President George W.Bush, May 3, 2003
Not Everyone Was Convinced
Before the start of the war in Iraq a number of very influential Americans tried to [...]
The Gold Standard For Conflict Between Nations
At 3:00 in the afternoon of August 3rd 1914, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey took the floor of the British Parliament, the oldest and most practiced parliamentary body in the world. His purpose was to bring the country into war and bring it united. He had to explain why it was necessary to send Englishmen [...]
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