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November 2002 |
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November 29, 2002 - It has become popular among the Limbaugh
Legion and the commentators toeing the Ailes Line to adopt Kumbayah as a term
of derision aimed at anyone who views making war as a last resort rather than
an instant reflex. They neither appreciate nor care that they are ridiculing
a prayer soliciting the Lord's presence. Nothing is more appropriate at a
time of national peril than to ask the Lord to stand by us. November 20, 2002 - All my life I have thought of myself as holding conservative values; holding to those inalterable principles embodied in the seminal documents of the Republic. After all, Grandfather had taught me to read using Charles Beard’s The Bulwark of the Republic as my primmer. By the time I had entered the first grade at Lincoln School I could recite the Preamble to the Constitution from memory and Grandfather had drilled me on what it meant. Grandmother, the Methodist Minister’s daughter made sure that I understood that the Bill of Rights was the more perfect union of the political principles of the nation and the Gospel. For Grandfather the Constitution, the product of James Madison’s pen recording the acts of the great Convention of the States, was the Gospel of that Secular Religion called American and the Bill of Rights was its Book of Acts and especially the First Amendment that he said embodied the essence of freedom and liberty. It was a gospel preached in my Grandparents’ home from my earliest memories to last conversation with Granddad moments before he died in the summer of 1960....click here for entire article. November 17, 2002 - How are we to fight a war in Iraq, root out Bin Laden and his henchmen, stimulate the economy and pay for it all at once? The Secretary of Defense estimates that it will be necessary to mobilize 250,000 members of the Reserve and National Guard, men and women who will be withdrawn from their economic functions for the duration. How will our economy absorb that dislocation? How will we pay for that relocation and the diversion of goods and productive capacity from the civilian economy to the military requirements of another war of conquest and the ensuing protracted occupation of two countries, Afghanistan and Iraq?....click here for entire article. November 8, 2002 - From Mexico to Malaya and Beijing to Borneo products are being constructed at a tenth the cost of the same goods made in Michigan or Mississippi. The American auto industry is reduced to assembling foreign made parts into a whole. You cannot watch an American Made television. There are none. Our American made technological revolution is stamped “Made in Korea”. You can’t find a Made in America label on anything hanging in your closet.....click here for entire article. November 8, 2002 - I was thinking about the contrast between my two grandmothers’ kitchens at breakfast time. Grandmother Heath was up before dawn. She stoked up the fire in her cook stove with cobs and a chock of hickory and set the percolator on the back burner. It would burble and sing and the aroma of strong coffee would fill her kitchen and waft through the house calling the family to breakfast. Each perc re-circulated and strengthened the brew. Grandmother Heath’s breakfasts fueled you for the days’ work. The Heaths were farmers and Democrats with a big Capital D. My Grandmother Hays had a new modern “dripolator”. She would rise at a more convenient hour, usually after her husband had gone down to switch on the electric range and heat the water on the back burner. Grandmother would do her hair, and descend in time to fill the top receptacle of her coffee maker from the kettle. The smell it created as it trickled down through the grounds was as timid and weak as the uniformly insipid brew that it produced. Grandmother Hays’ breakfasts barely assuaged the pangs of morning hunger. The Hays were town dwelling people of business and Republican with an emphasized R.....click here for entire article. November 6, 2002 - Be very careful for what you wish, for you may get it. The President wished for total control of the machinery of government and he got it. But in the euphoria following the victories at the polls should come a sobering thought. Total control brings with it total responsibility. The Republican Party now owns all of the levers of power and it also owns all of the problems of America.....click here for entire article November 5, 2002 - Two Hundred and Fifteen years ago this country set out upon a great journey of discovery. We determined to test the proposition that a diverse people with differing interests; separated by geographic realities and differing ethnic heritage could be brought together in a union of peoples and construct a united nation of separate states. In 1787 we sought to codify the social contract between the people and their government. What emerged from that hot Philadelphia summer was the Constitution of the United States.....click here for entire article |
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