THE REPUBLIC FORWITCHISTAN

June 27, 2002 - I was 16 when President Eisenhower signed the bill altering our national patriotic creed, the one I had learned by rote and recited to start each day in public school. I objected then because it spoiled the metre and the meaning of that phrase "…one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". As a personal protest I have recited the creed omitting those intrusive words ever since.....click here for entire article

BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID

June 12, 2002 - The Every Other Thursday Afternoon Chowder and Marching Society meet every Friday Noon at the Ironhorse Restaurant to cuss and discuss and generally solve the troubles of the world. We count lawyers, engineers, social workers, geographers and teachers among our number. I am the oldest Old Fart in the group - too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. Our youngest member was just 7 when Saigon fell and too old to serve in Desert Storm. We are Yellow Dog Democrats and Rock Ribbed Republicans with all the shades of Red, White and Blue in between. There is little upon which we reach consensus. Nowhere are we more divided than when we parse the Second Amendment.....click here for entire article