The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Drowning in Delusions

By Barth on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 2:55pm |
Something is very wrong. You know it and, as Senator Robert Dole used to say in another context,"the American people know it." We no longer sound like the people of the United States. We are not the country of hope...
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A Time for Reflection

By Barth on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 5:38pm |
With a few exceptions,  all memorable, I have not attended religious services even on, as today, Rosh Ha-shana. I do not fast on Yom Kippur. I have allowed others to convince me that I am less than a good Jew...
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Questions about health care and then some

By Barth on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 3:54pm |
Before we get too wrapped up in the shame of it all, or whether the President was telling the truth or not when he was called a liar, may I just ask why a person who needs medical care should...
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Staying Calm, but Remaining Firm

By Barth on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 3:02pm |
Our system of government is not generally amenable to Big Ideas or to enacting the platform of a strong leader. Our founders had enough of the royal prerogative and sought to retard the ability of a single leader to impose...
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EMK, a post script

By Barth on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 8:49pm |
The second it was posted, the inveterate blogger knew it was a mistake. He is not on deadline; he does not get a dime from these scribblings. Why rush it? Why pile on while everybody (including some who feel guilty about...
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Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932-2009

By Barth on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 1:54pm |
Many have much to say, some more personally close to Senator Kennedy, some with greater public office or accomplishment than my own. The question is, therefore, why add to the pile. The answer comes from Senator Kennedy: For all those whose...
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Summer Vacation

By Barth on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:56pm |
It is hard for some of us to post regularly during most of the year, and harder still in the summer. The work that pays the bills tends to increase in the summer, and it did this year, and then...
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Extremism

By Barth on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 8:54pm |
Pressed for time, and the increased demands of an adult daughter, a former wife, and work it becomes difficult to mount the Paul Revere horse as often as the need seems to arise....
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The Meaning of "Cronkite"

By Barth on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 11:09pm |
It seems as if I am never where everyone else is. Michael Jackson meant nothing to me. I follow popular music almost as religiously as I do baseball, politics, and a few other things (though, mostly, not religion) but my...
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Now we know why

By Barth on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 11:23pm |
No. I don't mean that there is anything surprising about tonight's revelation that it was the Vice President from the late administration who directed the CIA to conduct some activities without any notice at all to Congress, hardly news to...

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