I apologize! Having headed up the public relations department of a major international pharmaceutical corporation, I think back to when an Ivy League CEO walked into my office and asked me why we must have ‘dialogue’ rather than just ‘talk’.

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Remember when ‘we’ (that’s a collective we) said, ‘the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree’ when casting a positive or negative note of one’s offspring?  Well, today that metaphor appears to be in the process of modification.

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We have talked about Saul Alinsky before, you know, the self proclaimed Marxist who wrote “Rules For Radicals” a book that simply applies the philosophy of the “means to an end””.  Alinsky was a rebel and his entire life was devoted to organizing a revolution in America to destroy a system he regarded as oppressive [...]

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People who participate in valid protests should be careful who they join hands with, because more often than not the underlying objective of the sponsors does not represent what the event appears to be.

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I must admit there is a lot of garbage on the Internet, most of which comes from left wing vitriolic, petty, Alinsky-style Obama-like personal attacks often from California flakes spewing forth sophomoric writings from the left and it is sad; but when it comes from an alleged relative that calls me ‘Uncle’  I find it [...]

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When the volcano blew in Iceland, the name of which few newscasters could pronounce, and ash took over the atmosphere grounding planes worldwide people couldn’t get where they wanted to go.

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Somewhere on the way to Marseille, with the final destination being Paris, I had some random thoughts about Easter and what surrounds many beliefs, faiths, what can be proven, what can’t, and the hypocrisy of the way in which human kind behaves despite the simple premise of thinking one knows the difference between right and [...]

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I was given a code red after the 14th visit.  No, it wasn’t for visits to the  local hospital, nor for extrajudicial punishment in the Marine Corps – it was for extraordinary pixelation on my HD TV sets.

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It’s not enough that our government takes our money once, twice and three times on the dollar, then takes more through backdoor taxes when we are not looking and taxes the same dollars again after we die, but now they are going to tell our families what they should eat, how they should play in [...]

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Illustrator J.J. Gould’s 1930 drawing of Amos (r) and Andy What is it about the American psyche that captures its mind with icons, songs, chants, shows and symbols and then forces it to re-examine whether it’s politically correct or racially offensive?

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