On Independence Day, my thoughts are unfocused and generally entangled with the whole Revolutionary War thing, one event competing with another for quality time in an attention span that was never …
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So yet another nationally prominent politician has become ensnared in a sordid sex scandal, you say? Well, ho hum. What else is new?
Many viewers over the age of 50 may have been reminded of the …
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One thing I have learned in living hard against a country crossroads intersection is that the human species tends to exhibit scofflaw tendencies when left without adult supervision.
But perhaps I …
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When the Legislature enacted and Gov. John Baldacci subsequently signed into law legislation that broadens the existing ban on use of the word “squaw” in the state’s official place names, the …
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Sixty-five years ago today, on June 6, 1944, one of mankind’s great crusades against the forces of evil got under way in spectacular fashion on the beaches of the Normandy region of France.
The …
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The article in the morning newspaper reported that the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has banned smiling by clients having their pictures taken for driver's licenses. Not that there has ever …
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“My old man was in World War II. His stories are the same old bull,” a character in author Jack Fuller’s Vietnam War novel, “Fragments” tells a friend. The friend replies, “Maybe you …
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As I watched a television newscast and heard a lady speak of “longitudinal visits” by clients of the medical establishment for which she worked, it occurred to me that the language may be passing …
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You have to hand it to Vice President Joe Biden and his impolitic compulsion to shoot from the lip while straying from the reservation when it comes to Obama administration talking points on any given subject.
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