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The Glorious Fourth

By Barth on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 2:23pm |
This may require some careful use of your powers of imagination and, maybe a dash or two of poetic or historical license. You will need to ignore today's geo-political realities, particularly the military power available to powers big and small...
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Popular Music and Being Jewish

By Barth on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 3:23pm |
There are so many things to write about this week, how government that is not responsive to the people it serves is not only useless, but destructive (that means you Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi---the public wants national health care...
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Adults

By Barth on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 3:49pm |
When those of us born in the rough wake of World War II were growing up, many of us divided the world and its rules into those which applied to "adults" and those which we were bound to follow. In...
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New York, New York or The state I am in

By Barth on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 3:01pm |
We laugh about it sometimes. Those of us who live in the State of New York, particularly, perhaps, those of us who have worked for it, or work on legislative issues, have watched as what passes for a government has...
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D-Day 2009

By Barth on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 4:10pm |
The seminal event of this week, and perhaps this year, ends, as it should, on a day of national consecration as much as those we celebrate that way.  The photograph of the President, whose grandfather and great-uncle were part of...
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The Speech

By Barth on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 6:38pm |
There is much more to say about this important moment and, when I have a few minutes this weekend I will try to present a few here to see what others think, but I did have time to throw this...
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Appellate judging

By Barth on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 9:24pm |
I once had a job which required me, from time to time, to speak on the record to newspaper reporters and their supposed equivalents in the broadcast media. The people who were responsible for my office's relations with the same...
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Memorial Day

By Barth on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 2:38pm |
I am not sure exactly when it happened. Maybe it was during 1968 when the murders of Dr. King and Senator Kennedy made it look as if the country could break apart. Somehow the progressive wing of the party got...
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The Speaker

By Barth on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 4:25pm |
It sits in the back of my head and, as has become common these days, the internet comes to the rescue. Once, I remembered, I read a very compelling article in Time magazine about how what came to be known...
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Prolonged Detention

By Barth on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 1:45pm |
A Memorial Day weekend doubleheader.  First up this post, in response to an interesting segment of the Rachel Maddow Show about what the president calls "prolonged detention"...

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