Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Monday, February 23, 2026

FRENCH MEAT PIE

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by Michelle Valois     French meat pie is a greasy wonder of pork, beef, and onion, filling a pie crust that is flaky and buttery. Some part...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

SEASON OF THE WITCH, 2025

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by Laurie Rosen Usha Vance official portrait The straw brush of my fireplace broom broke free. I refuse  to throw it away, someone must sure...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

WE’RE RIGHT, BEHIND YOU

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by Steven Kent "Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's supposedly radical policies as 'normal'" — The Guardian , Novembe...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

THE FIRST DEATH

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by  Thomas R. Smith So a lost brother has taken a bullet. We grasp after a coherent motive. Another of the terminally online? Noticing the v...
Friday, September 12, 2025

BULLY PULPIT

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by Mark Danowsky was not intended to mean  what any of us think  but language changes  & we change with it  & you know a bully  when...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN

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A Prose Poem by Howie Good President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia concluded their summit in Alaska on Friday without decl...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

TRADE-OFFS

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by Imogen Arate The bombs continue to fall. Cartoon by MATE “Israel's New Gaza Operation Should Be Called 'Chariots of Genocide'...
Monday, March 31, 2025

NO JOKES

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by Peter Witt Tee shirt detail The White House Correspondents' Association announced Saturday that its annual dinner will not feature co...
Friday, March 28, 2025

WE STILL CALL IT FREEDOM

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by Phyllis Frakt Cartoon by Nick Anderson Do you still believe  your world is real? How medieval! So passé! Abandon all hope, enter our new ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

HER CENTENNIAL

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by Courtney Hitson For Flannery O’Connor,  born March 25, 2025   You watch from inside my poems,  especially the ones that try to dislodge a...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

A FABLE

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by  Howie Good AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . Someone is shouting, “Freedom!”  or maybe “Free them!” The shouts...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

WHAT A CHILD NEEDS IN A WAR ZONE

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by  Jerrice J Baptiste The impact of armed conflicts on children around the world reached devastating and likely record levels in 2024, acco...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

FINDING HOPE

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by Ron Shapiro Festive. Never in my life have I been to a march where everyone is smiling, singing along to the music, waving flags illumina...