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Daily Archives: December 7th, 2007

Sheldon Whitehouse speaks out on Bush criminality

Rhode Island traded a mediocrity for a first rate Senator when it threw out Lincoln Chafee last year. Senator Whitehouse scores the Bush criminal enterprise in a Senate speech. (Full story here). Let’s start with number one. Bear in mind that the so-called Protect America Act that was stampeded through this great body in August […]

A Mormon story

Since Mormons are in the news lately, I share herewith a story about my own pilgrimage to the Mormon Tabernacle back in 1971. The school year ended early as a result of the post Cambodian invasion student strikes. Four Bowdoin students, including me, decided to take the archetypal road trip, so we took off in an […]

JFK versus Willard Romney

There have been a number of comparisons between Willard Romney’s speech yesterday and John Kennedy’s speech in 1960 to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. It really boils down to this: JFK was trying to extinguish the flames of religious bigotry, Romney was trying to fan the flames while changing the direction of the wind.   […]