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Jul.27.2008
Something happened on Friday, July 25th, 2008!
The name of the House Hearings on Friday morning was "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations," and many of us watched the nearly six hours of proceedings on C-Span.
Though last month, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, and...
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Jul.22.2008
One of the nice aspects of the Red Room "Night of 100 Authors" affair at Tosca's last Friday was the diversity of the people who attended. Some authors looked barely of drinking age, others like myself were somewhat "more mature" in appearance. But there were, indeed, young...
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Jul.17.2008
According to the Office of the Speaker of the House, the Bush Administration is drafting a proposed regulation which would curtail funding for domestic family planning centers that do not hire staff members who refuse to provide birth control. [Current law permits doctors and nurses to refuse...
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Jul.16.2008
Yesterday, I posted among my articles at Red Room, the review of a small Australian movie, THE BANK, dating from the year 2002. The film was notable for its clear-eyed courage of expression, and imaginative logic, concerning Global currency and stock transactions, about a year after the...
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Jul.12.2008
Blog: Saturday, July 11, 2008: Hard to say if it really is those phone calls you and others have been making to the Members of the House Judiciary Committee, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi allowed on Thursday morning, in response to Ohio Representative Kucinich's simplified restatement...
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Jul.08.2008
In honor of the 62nd Birthday of Our Decider, George W. Bush, which was celebrated quietly aboard Japan-bound Air Force One, this past Sunday, July 6, 2008, let me call your attention to a new movie, CHEMICAL WEDDING, directed by Julian Doyle (normally a film editor: LIFE OF BRIAN 1979; TIME...
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Jul.07.2008
This morning, I came across the sad plea of an Oil Company CEO that Americans should be patient with him and his colleagues, and while being wary of radicals from the Democratic Party, should do nothing that might add to Oil Companies' costs of extracting, refining and distributing oil in the form...
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Jul.06.2008
On this day in San Francisco, I woke once again feeling it hard to breathe from smoke in the air. The weekend had been a happy one. I spent the 4th calling family and old friends, and in the evening, I went over to a party at the home of Gary, a friend of Larry French, the distinguished editor of...
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Jun.10.2008
June 30, 2008: As I say, I must get My Blog in gear.
The weather on the West Coast, particularly in Northern California, has been unseasonably warm and drizzle-free this Summer. That factor is dictated, as the Country knows now, by nearly 1,500 fires burning up and down the State. Most sad...
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About Alex
Born in a little town east of Cleveland, Ohio, I attended Kent State, taking a degree in Political Science and History; served in the U.S. Army (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) at Lakenheath Airbase in Suffolk, East Anglia, England.
This experience was one the most...
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Causes Alex Fraser Supports
Greenpeace
Alex’s Favorite Books
Revolutionary Road, Easter Parade, Disturbing the Peace, and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates; Pan by Knut Hamsun; The Dubliners by James Joyce; Dog...