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Daily Archives: June 15th, 2008

Weekend garden blogging

Sunday, June 15, 2008

A few pictures from the garden. This is June, so the roses are in bloom. As usual, clicking on a picture gives you a larger image. My wife says that foxglove is a weed, but I say a weed is anything that grows where you don’t want it, and this stuff is fine right where […]

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McCain vs. McCain

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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Polish Pride

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Both of my sisters have sons who graduated, one from college, one from high school, this year. They decided to have a little joint celebration. Where better than a place where we could also celebrate half our heritage (one quarter and perhaps some minor fractions in the case of the kids): the Polish National Home. […]

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Time of War

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Recently the Supreme Court ruled, by the slimmest of margins, that prisoners at Guantanamo have the right to file habeas corpus actions challenging their incarcerations. In today’s Times, Jonathan Mahler, writes that in doing so the Supreme Court has bucked precedent: “The most important thing we do is not doing,” Justice Louis D. Brandeis once […]

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