How Can One Remember . .

Let’s put this in context.  I’ll go back to the beginning. Mrs. Chief & I were leaving Wal-Mart gas station today a little after 3.  I turned on the radio and Fresh Air with Terry Gross was just coming on.  She had part of a replay of a May 2009 show with John Doe and [...]

A List

A lot of us are familiar, more or less, with the reasons to be or not to be in, with military forces, south Asia, specifically, Afghanistan.  And there are a lot of opinions and some factual material regarding the U.S. adventurism in that part of our world.  And some folks compare it to our involvement [...]

Words We Never Hear

It would be nice if the Public could hear the same advice in real time that the President hears from his National Security Adviser or from the National Security Council or DOD specialists.  The Public could have informed debate and make their own informed decisions. What do you think the Public reaction would have been [...]

We Have No Institutional Memory

From “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn: When Kennedy took office in early 1961 he continued the policies of Truman and Eisenhower in Southeast Asia. I know that it is like ‘beating a dead horse’ to keep bringing this up but we are making the same mistake in Afghanistan five decades [...]

From The “What It’s Worth” Department

Mrs. Chief, our oldest daughter and I just watched the historic Senate vote on C-Span-2  for passage of the Health Care bill.  Dems – 60,  Disloyal Opposition – 39, the bill passed without the need for the President of the Senate to be there.

I Must Ask The Question

I am a secularist – I suppose.  First and foremost, I tend to believe what I see.  Secondly, if I cannot see the item in question, I attempt to use my common sense and what ever it is that I have learned in my life,  in my quest to understand the item or event in [...]

Pass The Bill

The bill in the Senate, while far from perfect, even not real acceptable, is as good as we are going to get in 2009.  Politics, “the art of the possible,” makes this the best possible bill we can get for right now. Greg Sargent has this post up. This bill, as it stands today will [...]

Cancer Breakthrough

This is the biggest and by far the best health news since Dr. Jonas Salk discovered the vaccine to prevent polio in 1952.  That folks, is fifty-seven years ago.

Black Holes

During the Bush Administration,secret prisons were used in foreign countries and were referred to as ‘black holes.”  Now, according to this piece in The Nation bu Jacqueline Stevens, we have black holes, secret prisons, right here in the United States. The piece ends with this sentence, An attorney who had a client held in a [...]

I Understand

I understand, I really do understand, part of what motivates “Tea Partiers.”  I understand the frustration of working hard, only to get laid-off and then read about Wall Street executives getting multi-million dollar bonuses.  I understand the frustration of not being able to make a mortgage payment, thru no fault of your own, and the [...]