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Mar.25.2012
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Mar.26.2012
Malcolm X scared the heck out of white people in the 1960s. He was demonized by whites and blacks alike. Malcolm was a greatly misunderstood...
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Mar.28.2012
J. Edgar Hoover is very much like Joseph McCarthy. He could have done what he did a lot differently, and probably better. He was a demagogue and...
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Mar.29.2012
To paraphrase President Nixon, let me make this perfectly clear! I support Israel. I support Israel five thousand percent. I am one of those...
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Mar.30.2012
Another charming gift that the Middle East gave the world occurred on November 4, 1979. Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,...
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Mar.31.2012
A certain uneasy stability hung over the Israeli-Palestinian predicament after the Yom Kippur War. There was a sense that the Arabs had taken their...
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Apr.01.2012
The Persian Gulf War has an interesting place in world history. It was the first post-Cold War conflict, and demonstrated the new political hegemony...
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Apr.03.2012
A number of people connected to Bill Clinton have turned up dead. To date, Bill and Hillary have gotten away with all of it! By printing this...
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Apr.04.2012
With the breakup of the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia split. War ensued in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result, sanctions were levied and...
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May.23.2009
This morning's alarm clock was a cicada buzzing in the heat in the distance. I woke up with the fan still blowing over my sweaty body. Too hot to...
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Jun.06.2009
A change of venue: At the Mosque he holds his empty glowing pen in the left hand, scribbling the visions and spells of prophets and madmen in the...
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Jun.14.2009
From defiant clouds raindrops the size of dogs chase raindrops the size of cats down to the ground, where they end up together as friends in puddles...
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Jun.16.2009
When my muse feels sick I turn on the music and let the healing sounds enter the drums in my ears. Soon my muse is amused, laughing and dancing like...
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Jul.14.2009
It all started so well... the sights, the scenes, the music, the people, and the skies. My God, the skies above Paris, above Mont St. Michel, above...
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Sep.21.2009
The old storyteller raises his gnarled hands to the red sky and the fighting stops briefly. He turns to PD Allen and says, "I'm glad you felt...
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Feb.21.2010
The truth doesn't have to be cold or hard. It is a subjective thing colored by the mood we sometimes find ourselves in. The fact your book is being...
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Apr.04.2010
Sniff the air. What’s that smell? Those smells? And that whining sound? A mosquito? A fly? Sniff the air. Pant with a tongue to cool down. Scratch...
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Apr.06.2010
old poems carved by firelight into the cave wall don't remain. dancing flames lick the paint, drying the dying messages again. at ceremony's end, the...
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Apr.10.2010
"Poems that shoot into space are like souls that refuse to stay in place," said the paper to the pen. "Water falls as does ink because...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.