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Mar.14.2013
Shergar, Aga Khan, and Pope Francis I
With Saint Patrick's Day approaching, I recently watched Shergar, a TV film loosely based on the 1983 kidnapping of an exceptional Irish Thoroughbred racehorse.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar  I was naturally intrigued by the circumstances of the event that inspired the filmmaker's...
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Sep.25.2011
The hypocrisy of John Lennon.
John Lennon. The "Peace Activist" who supported murderers. In this world there are good people and bad people. There are those who will go out and sacrifice themselves for a cause, people like Gandhi, who almost starved himself to death in protest at the sectarian violence that swept India at the...