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Oct.07.2012
Many feel that the 2004 Presidential campaign swung in favor of Republican George W. Bush in September when CBS anchor Dan Rather ran with a story...
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Oct.07.2012
During the Civil War, communities in both the North and South would gather to read the casualty lists from Gettysburg, Manassas, Antietam. Each...
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Oct.07.2012
The goal of the World Trade Center terrorists may not be political, but it could be religious. The great conflagration religion has warned us about...
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Oct.11.2012
Americans love to congratulate ourselves on how great we are. On Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and on most any day, we enjoy re-...
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Oct.12.2012
From 2001   Today’s paper said George Bush won the Florida electoral college in 2000. This was the sixth time I have seen this headline in the...
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Oct.12.2012
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26, 2001 - I think the point a lot of us have been trying to make for a long time has been missed.  I am sure Gerald Ford...
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Oct.12.2012
On Tim Cook To expect in the mind’s eye, that a Steve Jobs whose no longer with us was a brilliant visionary, but to say he never made a mistake,...
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Oct.15.2012
The African AIDS crisis leads me to believe that the battle between Good and Evil is being won by Evil.  In the 20th Century, Evil tried a...
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Oct.16.2012
EXCERPT FORM “A TALE OF THREE CITIES: THE 1962 BASEBALL SEASON IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO” By STEVEN TRAVERS   The East-West...
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Oct.16.2012
The producers of Atlas Shrugged have made some odd choices. Last year they released Atlas Shrugged: Part I. It was not a bad film, but no masterpiece...
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Apr.18.2009
Several days ago, KidThree had been on a visit to her bio-mother.  Bio-Mom is out on bail right now but will be heading to prison for several years;...
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Apr.20.2009
Yesterday was a good day.  After a slow, lazy start to the day, KidTwo and I got on the road to the Bay Area.  The weather was gorgeous, bright and...
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Sep.13.2009
I read Phil Bronstein's blog several days ago, the one where he wrote about Obama telling children that they needed to stay in school.  The point of...
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Oct.22.2009
to do the dishes and such so that when the movers arrive this afternoon to get everything packed up, everything is as ready as I can get it.  I'll...
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Jan.04.2010
This was a very bad weekend.  I spent most of it wishing I could join my brother in the peace of the cool and the dark.  Yesterday afternoon it...
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Jan.26.2010
That question was posed to me the other day by a little neighbor boy, and at first I was taken aback that anyone could consider us rich.  We live in...
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Feb.05.2010
The tall bridge beckons And promises peace As the water below sings its siren song. A
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Feb.25.2010
BoyTwo (age four and a half) taught GirlTwo (age three) to make H's and A's today.  (His name begins with H and hers with A.)  They did this all on...
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Oct.23.2009
VENICE IN MID WINTER Bundled in a raincoat, a pork pie hat pulled low over my brow, I slosh along in my rubber boots on my way to a secret ceremony...
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May.10.2012
Today is (DON'T IMITATE MY EGO (FLESH) THURSDAY.)      This expression is asking one not to model after their untamable evil...
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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.