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Eight And Out Of Iraq

On September 11, 2001 the United States was assaulted by three hijacked commercial airliners. A fourth jet crashed into a Pennsylvania field. 9/11 shocked the nation and its populace sought revenge. The President, CIA, and FBI laid the blame on supporters of Osama Bin Ladin. The Al-Quada leader was living in Afghanistan and the Pentagon […]

Frontrunner For A Day

The Death Penalty throughout history has been imposed on traitors, heretics, adulterers, thieves, murderers, rapists, arsonists, and the innocent. One of my distant family members was hung by the English for religious dissent in the late 1500s and more recently Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois in 1844. I have never […]

Thanks But No Thanks

The American media has been slicing and dicing the Osama Bin Laden raid faster than a Benihana chef’s flashing steel knives. America’s joy over the murder of the purported mastermind of 9/11 has come under criticism by the foreign press assailing the operation’s coup de grace to an unarmed man. The hardcore GOP are demanding […]

4Q By peter nolan smith

Coming back to America was a shock after a long absence in Asia. I was thin in comparison to the tubby NYU students waddling down St. Mark’s Place. They all had food in their mouth. My lower jaw hung slack in shock. This expression of disgust was bound to attract the wrong attention and a […]

GW Bush Rebound

GW Bush has been out of office for over a year. We are still at war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as well as several other mideastern countries. His ‘sound economy’ resulted in staggering federal deficits and this tax cut for the rich produced a chasmic gap of wealth between the classes. The environment suffered […]