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CHENEY'S ENERGY POLICY

By Richard Day on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 3:50pm |
                                                                               La Vérité ("Truth") by Jules Joseph LefebvreBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Mathew 7:15 Once upon a time, the Vice-President of the United States met with over...
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THANATOS

By Richard Day on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 7:00pm |
                                                                     THANATOS And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all...
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GOODBYE MR. MOYERS

By Richard Day on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 2:04pm |
                             Taoism Journalist Bill Moyers retires from PBS and his weekly show, the Bill Moyers Journal, on Friday. In honor of the public broadcasting legend, Fresh Air is rebroadcasting segments from several...
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PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

By Richard Day on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 7:10pm |
This is the worst trip I've ever been on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY The path of the wicked enter not, walk not on the way of evil men; Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it and pass on. -- Proverbs...
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JUSTICE DELAYED

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 9:24pm |
 :                                       THE TRIAL, By Franz Kafka   Housing the approximately 500,000 people in jail awaiting trial who can't afford bail costs $9 billion a year.[47] Most jail inmates are petty, nonviolent offenders. Twenty years ago most nonviolent defendants...
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THE PLAIN LANGUAGE DOCTRINE

By Richard Day on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 9:15pm |
Brat Hume probably said it best when he noted his position vis-a-vis  profiling: "Some people are going to have to endure inconvenience as opposed to everybody." It is redundant but let us take a look at similar views concerning...
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THE NEW AGE OF TURRETTE'S RHETORIC: Rated PG-13

By Richard Day on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 5:45pm |
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.                                                                                          --A....
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ARIZONA: ARE YOUR PAPERS IN ORDER?

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 7:19pm |
                                                          THE WARSAW ROUND-UPLinda Greenhouse seems to be a little upset over recent legislation that has been signed, sealed and delivered by the Arizona Governor recently: And in case the phrase "lawful contact" makes it appear as if the police...
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GEORGE W. BUSH; AN HISTORICAL NOVEL--OF SORTS

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 12:14am |
                              ULYSSES S. GRANT WRITING HIS MEMOIRSThe very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.                                                                          Pudd'n Head WilsonSince leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency," Crown...
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CONTEXT, CONSENSUS & CONFUSION

By Richard Day on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 8:23pm |
e                                                       By Nikolaos Gysis (1892)               I have been thinking about values lately. When I was in grammar school, I recall a teacher who must have had a bug up his arse about some political matter. God only knows what...

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