Monday, December 31, 2018

ANOTHER YEAR

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by George Held Another year ends and a new year starts and I have fewer—it’s just math— to count on, but I’m glad to have been bor...

ANOTHER NEW YEAR'S EVE

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley A flock of migrating Canada geese take flight from Colorado in 2014. Credit: Amanda Sutherland, Reporter-Herald...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

BIRDS OF WINTER 2018

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by Mary K O'Melveny "US withdrawal from Syria will endanger Kurds, Arabs, Christians," —by Amy Austin Holmes, The Hill , ...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

THAT DICK . . . CHENEY

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by Martin H. Levinson " Vice suggests that Cheney’s legacy is a soulless quest for power, rather than the advancement of fallac...
Friday, December 28, 2018

SANTA OUT OF THE CLOSET

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by Tricia Knoll  I come out today after all these years enduring an insane itch on my chin, that white beard. I come out because I...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

CASAS SEGURAS: A MESSAGE FROM THE CARAVAN

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by Sarah Edwards Elvira Choc, 59, Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal's grandmother, rests her head on her hand in front of her house in Raxr...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

JOHN KELLY!

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by Cody Walker White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, reacts as he and First Lady Melania Trump listen to President Trump speak a...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

RED BALLOON AT CHRISTMAS

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by Darrell Petska  Be my poem oh red balloon fly true from my hand unhindered by distraction soaring beyond all borders fordin...
Monday, December 24, 2018

THE MOON 2018

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by Harold Oberman December 24, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA's  Earthrise photograph. Harold Oberman was young eno...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

AMERICAN SOLSTICE

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by Peleg Held Wednesday's surprise announcement that the U.S. will quickly withdraw all its troops from Syria is the stuff of night...

THE SOLSTICE OF 2018

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by Joan Colby Image source: Vox The Ursid showers cursed With the Cold Moon—final fullness Of the year. Its harsh reflected glow ...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

MUELLER MULLING

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by Edmund Conti There is no smoking gun yet. Results look rather thinnish. But wait, we are not done yet. Please just let me finish...
Friday, December 21, 2018

TONIGHT

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by  Penelope Scambly Schott The Oregon state legislature passed a law that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, that will allow the cit...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

CLASS WAR

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by Larissa Shmailo Freshly plucked tea leaves are seen in the hand of a tea garden worker in Jorhat in Assam, April 21, 2015. REUTERS/A...