Hillary said, He would not have been my pastor. You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend. And the door opened … (photo credit: @n@bou) … for the chickens. Who came home to roost. Update: And here’s another chicken.
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(Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B. Johnson a model of the Khe Sanh area; photo credit: NARA) NYT: The operation in Basra, which senior Iraqi officials had been signaling for weeks, is considered so important by the Iraqi government that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki…
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During the final weeks of the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, Hillary Clinton badly damaged her reputation by failing to own up to misrepresenting the extent of her foreign policy experience, most notably by claiming she faced sniper fire upon landing…
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(Image credit: NASA) CNN: NASA spent $800 million to build and launch Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, to Mars. They landed about 3 weeks apart in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet from each other. Both were designed for 90 day missions, but…
Derek Bridges
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At the beginning of the presidential campaign–before it, really–I wanted Barack Obama to get the nomination. I freely admit it. His convention speech sealed it, but I had bought in before he ever took the stage in Boston (I’m from Illinois, so I was paying…
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A friend in Bloomington sent me a clipping from his local newspaper, the Pantagraph. Here are the salient details: State Farm Insurance Cos. reported record earnings of $5.46 billion in 2007, breaking the record set the previous year when it earned $5.32 billion. It was…
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Hillary Clinton apparently has her own pastor problem. It’s really weird, too. A book is forthcoming and Barbara Ehrenreich has the goods at The Nation: What drew Clinton into the sinister heart of the international right? Maybe it was just a phase in her tormented…
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Did you know that Arthur C. Clarke invented the beep? He was the first person to publish the word “beep” in the modern context anyway.
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My Dad is at it again. I noted earlier that he has a painting that will be exhibited at a show in New Orleans in May. Today he sent me a digital image of a more recent painting he completed based on a photo I…
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Responses to Barack Obama’s speech fall into four categories: 1) He hit it out of the park, I heard the angels sing, I saw history, he talked to me like I was an adult; 2) Too little, too late, he didn’t do enough to persuade…
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My father will be in town May 17 for the opening reception of the Louisiana Watercolor Society’s 38th Annual International Exhibition at Place St. Charles (201 St. Charles Avenue), where his painting Guard Watch will be on display: (All Rights Reserved © David M. Bridges)…