World War II

  • Repent For Your Bad Driving

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      When people cut each other off in traffic, or pull out in front of others, we are always looking the other way. If it were a mistake or if they didn’t see you, they would try to correct, jerking the steering wheel or pleading for forgiveness in the rear view mirror. I don’t know how…

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  • No Apologies: the Danger of Bravado

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    Despite the fact that there was little substantive division between the two candidates allowed into last night’s debate, we might make the false assumption that the only difference was actually cosmetic. That and Governor Romney’s continued radical change in policy from week to week, embracing the very things he condemned in last week’s debate. But…

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  • A shocking lack of historical knowledge

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    We all know the paraphrase, if not the real quote by George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it.” And we seem to believe it.  Sort of. Considering the ease with which we warn each other that such a leader as our own is the second coming of Hitler, it…

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