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November 22

By Barth on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 1:26pm |
Those who believe that "9/11" will always stop traffic should note how little is said of its predecessor date of significance, the date on which the President of the United States was murdered in Texas....
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Brainwashed

By Barth on Sat, 11/15/2008 - 12:55pm |
The first Romney campaign for president, that of Mitt's father, George, famously started on a downward spiral when he tried to explain his changing views on the Vietnam War by claiming: "I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody...
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Listen to Me

By Barth on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 1:57pm |
We can all be childish once in awhile.My ex-wife once stuck her head out of the window of an apartmen we had in Greenwich Village to yell "Humanity!!! Listen to me." The following compendium of insights, mainly posted on...
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Back on Course

By Barth on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 3:01pm |
Many of us live in a country formed by revolution against the past, by dreamers who sought to form "a more perfect union" to render the government an instrument of the people, and not of the despots or oppressors of...
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On sadness and optimism

By Barth on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:36pm |
I posted this a few other places yesterday, but wanted to get it here today:When the dust settled on the 1960 presidential election, President-elect Kennedy told us that he was off to prepare for "a new administration and a new...
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Election Day

By Barth on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:35pm |
He told us this in the first minutes of his presidency:All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor...
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The Most Important Election Ever

By Barth on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 2:14pm |
The reason that the upcoming election is always the most important election ever is that from the point of view of today, the only one we can take, it is the only election where the result is unknown and can...
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Our new beginning

By Barth on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 3:37pm |
Crossposted at the usual elsewheres:I was eight years old when President Kennedy was elected. Up to that time, the president was a grandfatherly looking man who the older folk told me was a great general who helped to beat the...
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Rounding Third

By Barth on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 9:27pm |
Cross posted at DailyKos, and The Public ServantThe Bob and Ray version of the end of Curt Gowdy's Red Sox pregame show on the late WHDH had them saying that they were rounding third and getting thrown out at the...
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Hate

By Barth on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 2:36pm |
<em>This is a cross-post from Daily Kos, where it is getting some attention, which is good.  My ego aside, this needs to become part of our national discussion about what has gone on this week.  Those who grew up with...

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