MY VOICE FOR NOW’s blog

BRAIN DEAD, WE DEAD

2009-01-25T16:26:37Z

Objections, to President Obama’s lifting of the Bush administration ban on federal funding to international groups that perform abortions and his voicing of support for human embryonic stem cell research, seem to have set my gray matter to workin...

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NUREMBERG, SOUTH AFRICA AND AMERICA:

2009-01-22T20:58:38Z

The expression of the following opinion might be as little welcomed by some as was a 1959 telecast of author Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg. The TV program’s dredging up of slightly-old Nazi war crimes was in Mann’s words “considered a breach...

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Automobile industry needs to change gears

2008-11-15T14:29:51Z

Automobile industry needs to change gears: In introductory remarks to his first press conference, President-elect Barack Obama on November 7, 2008 said, “The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing.” Automobile manufacturing an...

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Clinton, Obama and McCain: We need a NEW New Deal.

2008-04-01T15:08:50Z

My interest in politics goes back to a time when I thought that the president had to be named FDR and the pope Pius---this election harkens back to the seismic shift in politics that gave the nation the New Deal. There are obviously things that...

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A presidential candidate all choked...

2008-01-17T22:01:35Z

A presidential candidate all choked up? With a Clinton it would depend upon what “choked up” means. Now does choked up mean it “is” what it is, or does it mean it never “is” what it is? Anyway, in this political season a new voting block seems ...

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Politics and Religion

2007-12-24T13:58:00Z

People do many things in life that they never attempt to explain in terms of motive or underlying cause; they just do what may or may not be assessed good or bad by others. And what is daily done will usually go unassessed by everyone, including ...

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Victory from a sow's ear

2007-08-05T14:17:39Z

A sow’s ear is not going to be made into a silk purse and a tragically mistaken war in Iraq is not going to be fashioned into any kind of victory worth winning. It was a blunder to go into Iraq and it is more of one to stay there. We need to...

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Eco Pogo and the Free Market

2007-06-17T20:57:34Z

Economic growth to what end? Regardless of whether the state’s means are to be justified by their ends, the Machiavellian problem becomes one in which the means and their measure become ends within themselves. Thus, we have growth not for the gre...

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Global Warming and You

2007-04-16T19:55:36Z

A good deal of “scam science” comes out the propaganda mills in Washington and Washington that Karl Rove used to give us George W. Bush—these operations are rather ridiculously called “think tanks.” These are “rent-a-mouthpiece” operations that...

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Global warming

2007-04-07T14:17:35Z

Maybe some folks, particularly the religious right, remain ignorant of the disastrous consequence of global warming because its gradual increase is keeping them as blissfully unaware as a frog that has been placed in cold water that is gradually ...

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