08 April 2012
Gerrymandering creates undemocratic districts angers My Mom at the same time
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Robert Letcher
In recent years, many government officials seem to have developed a “reverse Midas touch”. You know: everything they touch seems to turn brown and stinky.

I’d like to think that elected people at all levels would respond by...
08 April 2012
Irony accompanied Obama on his trip to Columbus
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Robert Letcher
A sad irony accompanied President Obama on his recent visit to Columbus.. Mr. Obama, possibly the most charismatic President since President Kennedy, visited Columbus on the same day that Reverend Al Sharpton, reprising the role that...
08 April 2012
Needed: Better prepared students, not inflated grades
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Robert Letcher
Recently, Vice-President Biden came to Ohio in support of President Obama's efforts to make college tuition more affordable. Mr. Biden's visit a couple months back was reported in the January 13, 2012 issue of The Columbus Dispatch, in an...
08 April 2012
Why we should outgrow "diversity of tactics" before protesting NATO
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David Swanson
The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda has nothing on its website about using nonviolence, supporting nonviolence, or opposing violence.

The G8 and NATO Protest also has nothing like that, but does have this...
05 April 2012
Would you stop a friend from destroying the Earth?
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David Swanson
What would you do if someone had a button that could destroy the earth and they were walking across the room to push it? Would you stand in the way? Would you talk them out of it? Would you sit by and watch, maybe make a sarcastic...
01 April 2012
FINDING THE WISDOM WE NEED TO SURVIVE
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Robert Koehler
I'm far more interested in forgiveness than justice.

I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are so many murdered mothers and children in the news, some with names and faces,...

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