Opinion
COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia
July 19, 2009Original source: . Reposted by permission of the author. In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis who should pay the bill?
July 19, 2009WHITTIER, Calif. — California’s state budget is still being debated with continued threats of cuts and services to the most needed in our state. Here in California we all continue to be on pins and needles...
Read moreLETTERS Importance of standing up, coverage of N. Korea, Iran, Honduras, Health care for all
July 17, 2009Importance of standing up While I was sitting in the VA hospital waiting room, I struck up a conversation with an elderly lady. She explained to me that her husband was undergoing an extensive surgery and...
Read moreWill the Communists nationalize Juniors junkyard?
July 15, 2009Today is Saturday, so I crank up my old pickup truck and head down the old dirt road to see my good friend Junior. I love this old truck and every rattle that goes with it....
Read moreLONESOME HOBO ECONOMICS Mountaintop removal on recovery road
July 14, 2009In the Coal Creek river valley in Southern West Virginia actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climatologist James Hansen were arrested protesting continuation of mountaintop — “surface” — mining, warning of dire environmental consequences and unfunded costs...
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