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Nov.06.2012
“Thank you for flying.”The silver-haired, Mt. Rushmore-profiled airplane captain walked among the few dozen of us in the SFO departure lounge. It was one week after 9/11. The world was still numb from the horror. After days of no flights at all, planes were starting to move, but...
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Sep.09.2012
Osama bin Laden was a huge industry when alive. He continues to be one in death, shrouded in mystery. No surprise, then, that ‘No Easy Day’ by a former Navy SEAL has topped the charts. Matt Bissonnette used the pen name "Mark Owen".
Had I read the book, and the contradictory version the...
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Jul.17.2012
The headline from Bloomberg was a bleep in last month’s news cycle: “Cam Ranh Bay Lures Panetta Seeking Return To Vietnam Port.” But that bleep has become something of a Yellow Alert in Southeast Asia, with this new headline—“Clinton Landmark Visit to Laos.”
If Secretary of...
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Sep.21.2011
General David Petraeus, former commander in chief of U.S. forces in Iraq, opposed gays in the military.
Federal Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled that "don't ask, don't tell" was unconstitutional. The Pentagon ignored her.
Gay activists across the nation are celebrating the end of the 18-year-...
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Sep.11.2011
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I don't think anyone in America will ever view the date the same as they did prior to that tragic day. I was in bed when my husband called and said a plane had hit one of the towers. I'll never forget sitting in front of the TV,...
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Jul.31.2011
Now that it appears that Congress is getting ready to pass a compromise measure that allows for raising the debt ceiling, it's time to take a look at the fine print. The only problem is, the fine print seems to have been written in invisible ink.
The last piece of legislation that was passed in...
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Apr.27.2011
Eight NATO troops and a contractor, probably all Americans, according to the British press, were shot to death today by an Afghan pilot at the Kabul airport.
These ghastly murders are made even worse by the fact that they won't be reported properly. They won't be brought into their rightful context...
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Aug.06.2010
A disgruntled Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Morrell, recently vented about WikiLeaks's behemoth bequest to the media of 70,000 classified documents. Morrell told the Associated Press: "If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel...
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May.15.2010
Maybe someone can help me with this. For over 50 years I have heard quotes from other countries saying things about the United States. Here are a few of what is being said hence my problem. Why are statements being said accusing the US of everything from corruption to nuclear blackmail? Has the U....
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Nov.04.2009
The United States is, once again, at the precipice of all-out war, and, if the Pentagon, the Republicans, and the military-industrial monolith have their way, Afghanistan may become another Iraq or Vietnam. One can only hope that President Obama knows his history and will refuse to repeat its...
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