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I have cross-posted today:http://www.untilmysoncomeshome.com/2013/03/trading-places.html...

Cross-posted message for soldiers and families on Memorial Day.http://www.untilmysoncomeshome.com/2012/05/memorial-day-2012.html...

Forgive me for cross-posting, but this is an issue about which I feel rather strongly these days.You won't get his on network news, so I feel rather obligated to show it here. If you have a delicate stomach, read it anyway.http://www.untilmysoncomeshome.com/2012/03/john-lindsey-et-al-how-do-you-sleep-at.htmlOh by the way, this contains graphic content. As Lindsey Graham would say, you just need to push through it....

Earlier this week, noted Republican columnist George Will wrote an op-ed piece entitled "Republicans Need More Than Rhetoric on Defense," which appeared in the February 9 edition of the Washington Post.  Among other topics, Mr. Will noted that - given the robust track record of President Obama's administration - it is becoming increasingly difficult to suggest that the current strategy has failed and that any of the suggestions made by Mitt Romney as to how...

Perhaps you've heard. Our CongressNerds are doing the "gavel in/gavel out" thing and holding pro forma sessions trying to prevent the POTUS from making recess appointments for positions which have been vacant for months.From Wiki: "The term pro forma is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, perfunctory, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements or to conform to a convention or doctrine."The use of the pro forma...

I ran across something interesting and rather provocative recently - a website called www.ghettophysics.com.It came through from a "What the Bleep" link that I've had for a while, so if this kind of quantum physics, one-world, personal accountability, make-it-happen-yourself philosophy isn't for you, then you may be on the wrong blog. :-)Ghetto Physics aligns pretty well with the Occupy movement that is going on right now. As a matter of fact, if you're participating in...

On this, the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech, I would like to suggest that we take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished since 1963, and the work that we still need to do. We are still not at the point where "content of character" means more than anything else, so I would say we still have much to strive for.I would also like to talk about a dream of...

The good Americans you see in the picture above were protesting today outside the Houston office of Republican U.S.  Senator John Cornyn.These loyal Americans were demanding tax increases for the most wealthy, good jobs, and a federal budget that invests in America. They were out protesting because they know that the work of freedom is up to each of us.Our Tea Party/Republican Party foes never rest in helping the rich get richer, and in making...

The Fourth of July will be here soon.(Above--Black Americans observing the Fourth in 1939 in St. Helena Island, South Carolina.)What books would be helpful to learn more about the American Revolution and about America?As I've said before, I don't believe the Revolution was a liberal or conservative event in the sense we think about such things today.Some of the Founding Fathers were religious. Others were not.  The Revolution had some aspects of a tax revolt. But who...