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August, 2003 |
August 24, 2002 - "We stand by our belief that the entire Muslim community cannot be held responsible for the actions of Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda terrorists. In a country where whites, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans and Muslims live on the same block and learn in the same classrooms, knowledge and understanding, not extremi and blame, are critical to the peace asmnd prosperity of our great nation." NEA Statement on September 11 lesson plans.....click here for entire article August 22, 2002 - The word at the Champaign County, Illinois courthouse is that the most dangerous place in the world is to be standing between Republican States Attorney John Piland and any television news camera crew. More known for his appearances at self called news conferences than for appearances in local courtrooms, Piland has the reputation as a voracious news hound. Now it appears that he may have met his match in Lynn Stuckey a mother who he once prosecuted and he resents it....click here for entire articleAugust 8, 2002 - As each day passes the Bush policy east of Suez looks less and less like an action to root out Al Queda and make the world safe from terrorism and more and more like an imperial war to control the world's supply of petroleum. Iraq and Iran have been linked rhetorically in the Bush Axis of Evil, lumping those two ancient enemies together in the Bush crosshairs. Seizure of the Arabian oil fields is being mooted in the halls of the Pentagon.....click here for entire article August 4, 2002 - Rudyard Kipling chronicled the British innings of Afghanistan's Great Game more than a century ago. Time has passed. New players have replaced those felled by exhaustion; but the Game, its rules and Afghanistan remain the same. America has invaded Afghanistan just as the Red Army did to install and prop up a puppet regime. From Alexander to Gorbechev western armies have come to conquer; stayed to be bled from a thousand cuts; and abandoned the passes and cities to the tribes in the end. The only thing left to them is to heed Kipling's advice to the Young British Soldier of a century ago.....click here for entire article August 2, 2002 - In 1787 one of the issues that vexed the men charged with creating a new nation was the power to make war. It had been a matter that had vexed the Mother Country for centuries. Who made the decision to go to war? Who decided how to pay for war? The sovereign had the decision to make war and, the decision having been made, Parliament decided how to pay for it. There were those delegations who would have vested the sovereign power to go to war in the President. But in this new nation sovereignty rested in the people not an elected monarch. The power to declare war was vested in those who were charged with providing for its cost - the people's representatives in Congress.....click here for entire article |
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