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It was an "I can’t believe my eyes" moment. "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 ‘baby bond’ from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home," said the AP article. If ever a [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 1:45 PM UTC
I must admit, I was a little concerned when news broke that Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been invited to speak at Columbia University. After all, terrorists and the countries that help and harbor them are supposed to be on America’s hit list, and Iran’s President qualifies. An invitation [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 3:47 PM UTC
Ever since the Supreme Court discovered the right to privacy in 1973, a constitutional guarantee missed by hundreds of jurists for 184 years, Americans have been discovering additional rights at a dizzying pace. The few dozen rights enumerated in the Constitution of the United States have been overshadowed by hundreds of heretofore privileges [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 11:59 AM UTC
Every once in a while you happen upon a most appropriate statement, one worded so well there is hardly anything left to be said. The Wikipedia website accomplished such a feat, offering the following as a contemporary definition of Balkanization: "a term used to describe the process in the late 20th Century [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 7:06 PM UTC
It’s as old as the game itself. When an individual batter enjoys too much success, or when an entire team is pummeling opposing pitchers, the offended hurlers exercise what they apparently believe is their God-given right. They throw the ball at the batter! "Ha," they seem to be saying, "try to hit one [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 1:02 PM UTC
"President Bush’s promise Thursday to veto a major expansion of government-paid health care for millions of children…" the Chicago Tribune article begins. So far so good as later in the article we discover that "the [government] insurance plan is aimed at children living in households with incomes too high for Medicaid…" Here we [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 6:40 PM UTC
Passengers aboard United Flight 93, the fourth and last plane hijacked on September 11, 2001, found themselves in a desperate circumstance. Cell phone calls alerted them that the hijackers were on a suicide mission, intending to use the plane as a destroying missile. Deciding that any action to try to save themselves and those at [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics, War on Terror at 6:20 PM UTC
It took humanity several thousand years to figure out the best way to wage war. For dozens of centuries, armies would square off on battlefields and have at it. Advancements in warfare were limited to weapons and tactics. The bow and arrow made spears obsolete, and Napoleon’s giant squares of soldiers broke the [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as War in Iraq at 1:58 PM UTC
Is anyone else afraid to open the sports pages these days? Not long ago the American sports fan was pummeled into a state of shocked disgust when a plethora of bad news hit all at once. Incredibly, an NBA referee who was deeply involved with bookmakers did what he could to change the [...]
There was a time in this country’s history when both political parties claimed that "politics ended at the water’s edge." Even in times of great domestic political strife, past generations of politicians closed ranks when it came to confronting foreign foes. I’d like to believe that’s still true, but evidence to the contrary [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 1:45 PM UTC