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State Budget Cuts = Job Cuts

More than half our states are being forced to slash their budgets in light of tax losses with the recession: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711 Needless to say such budget cuts will mean the loss of jobs in nearly every area from medicine and ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Women Power

During my teaching career — 1963-2007 — I have watched the roles of women change radically. From “barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen” mixed with low level jobs (secretaries and such), I have seen my students and others move on into the professions, ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  15 Nov 2009

Killing — Here, There, and Elsewhere

During the Vietnam war we would boast almost daily of the numbers of enemies we had killed — quite often vague and exaggerated figures. Now with particularly Afghanistan our reports of enemies killed are generally sotto voce. As often as not our ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Afghanistan?????

Frankly, I find myself totally conflicted over Afghanistan. On the one hand I feel that we owe them much, having promised (falsely) that we would after our invasion help them reconstruct their ravaged country and finances — which we then diverted from ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

Death Penalty in America

We are about to execute another murderer tonight. Presumably we sometimes put to death innocent people — or so cases have shown. As the site below indicates we are seventh behind not the most to be admired nations in this practice — the only democracy ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  10 Nov 2009

Bill Buckley Helped Joe Lieberman Defeat Lowell Weicker

Lowell Weicker was a moderate Republican Senator of Connecticut when he was defeated by Joe Lieberman with the strong assistance of Bill Buckley. Buckley later came to regret his effort when Lieberman came out full force for the Iraq war. We too often ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Buckley,  Joe Lieberman,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Haleigh Cummings

What Is the Republican Party?

I grew up in a liberal Republican family — Republicans in those days were decent people who supported the public interests and human rights in contrast with the Southern Democrats who were at the heart of American racism. Robert A. Taft, for example, ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Haleigh Cummings

How Many Killed Today?

It is a well known fact that our leading newspapers are laying off reporters who are qualified to do in depth research. The news that reaches most Americans comes from TV and radio channels focused on advertising catching stuff — the latest child ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  U.S. Republican Party,  Haleigh Cummings

No Win in Afghanistan — But Now Iran?

There is no way we can ‘win’ a war in Afghanistan. The Taliban has far too many ways to elude our troops; there is no plausible government likely there. Some military have suggested that it would take hundreds of thousands of troops to subdue the ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Barack Obama,  Haleigh Cummings

Murders Unleashed by ‘Wars’

The news today is grim — mass killings, here, there, and elsewhere. The saddest thing is that most of these look to be retaliatory and, thus, a vicious circle of violence with no end in sight. Hillary Clinton is tying to reach out to the Pakistanis ...

From ED KENT, Blogger News,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Haleigh Cummings

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