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Sep.23.2009
While President Obama is doing the Sunday morning and late night talk show circuit here in the States, hawking his healthcare plan, there seems to be a war going on in Afghanistan. No, seriously, you may have heard about it if you were paying close attention. I kid you not. I think you can Google...
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Sep.11.2009
Update: Revised publication date set for November 15th 2011.
Dear Readers,
As you know I have been working on a new book for Cider Mill Press on FDR--With Strong and Active Faith: The Wisdom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In June I took my family along for a drive up to Hyde Park to visit the...
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Jun.16.2009
An estimated 1.5 to 2 million citizens took to the streets of Tehran June 15, 2009. Image Credit: mousavi1388's flickr photostream
Ladeen's Analysis: Iran And The Lust For Freedom
The world, especially the President of the United States, Barack Obama, expected that Ahmadinejad...
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Jun.07.2009
Storyhearts Sunday UK Blog - The USA needs a Citizen's Charter Do you get fed up when engineers, repairmen etc tell you they will be at your house to fix the TV/water/gas/electric/telephone at and then never turn up? Do get totally p'd off leaving messages and never getting a call back? Do you wish...
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Jun.01.2009
Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name?
The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her.
But we hear nothing about the person who foiled Moore's second shot. He...
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Jun.01.2009
Sunday's New York Times had an article on the cover about artists from around the world painting likenesses of our president. The few examples accompanying the article were impressive, some better than others, but who am I to judge since I have trouble drawing anything more than a stick figure...
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May.13.2009
I received an e-mail message from the White House today. At 1:31 in the morning, I found waiting in my inbox an e-mail message from President Barak Obama. I don't work at the White House. I don't work in government. I'm a citizen of the United States of America and I received an e-mail message...
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Apr.14.2009
Twenty-seven years ago I promised a convicted felon I would store her art collection until her son was old enough to take it.
This collection is not some small assembling of prints or photos. The collection includes seven oil paintings, some as large as a doorway. There are wall-...
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Apr.14.2009
Twenty-seven years ago I promised a convicted felon I would store her art collection until her son would take for her.
This collection is not some small assembling of prints or photos. The collection includes seven oil paintings, some as large as a doorway. There are wall-size...
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Feb.28.2009
What a story for a writer!
And yet, to my knowledge, it's not yet the subject of a novel, a major movie drama, or a play*. And it's been more than half a century since the curtain closed on the life in question! I'm talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose life is the subject of a 4-part,...
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