Historians have used different dualities to describe history and its periods: BC/AD, Dark Ages and Enlightenments, Kings and Battles, the Clash of Civilizations, and various revolutions. But current events incline…
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Note: a while back (before the last November elections) a DCJ reader from Florida sent me a comment that included this scenario. The reasoning it contains intrigued me, so I…
When the Republicans need to dip back into their presidential past for heroes they don’t have much that they can call upon that fits the desperate, mean-spirited, irrelevant political party…
These are sort of random thoughts and memoir snippets from various trips to Egypt, recalled and composed as I watch what appears to be a revolution in progress. One of…
There has been a lot of the usual handwringing about American violence in the wake of the latest mass killing—Tucson—by someone with easy access to an automatic weapon and plenty…
The occasion of exchanging season’s greeting with a dear old friend and fellow liberal/progressive recently turned into a friendly exchange on differences in opinion about the first two years of…
I can hear him. Yes, all the way from some hideout in Pakistan. That giggle of his. I can see his ass shakin’ as he kowtows on his prayer rug,…
I’ve been ragging on Obama a good deal of late. Disappointment is probably a stronger motivator than even the disgusting political behavior of the Republicans, or whatever they have transmogrified…
In two successive days there were two softball interviews of American presidents: On 60 Minutes Steve Croft served nice questions that hardly challenged Mr. Obama’s repetitive colorless and unemotional responses we had…
We all know that President Obama is half-white, or half-black (or the other way round, if you prefer). I once naively wondered that the election of a racially-mixed man to…