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Leaving Cuba and that confrontation with relatively recent(50 years)American/Cuban hostility,President Obama heads for Argentina where his arrival coincides with the anniversary of the ascent to power of a brutal military…

The surprising parallelism between Serena Williams' career and the turmoil of America's inequity crisis continues.Serena's decision to forgive and reconcile was admirable but clearly costly.It earned the amazing praise and…

Clarence Thomas asks his first questions in ten years and jokes with Justice Breyer.Three women justices shred the anti abortion arguments of the Texas attorney general; Teflon Don Trump barrels…

David Hume is haunting us.The problem of knowing what is true is too much with us! Our "passions"( modern lingo...feelings...)mislead us.The Apple/FBI-Judiciary dispute is a perfect example.My instinctive response was…

As has been noted previously(and often) a major aim of this blog is to promote dialogue between generations.Recent developments in the U.S. and the world seem to have intensified(if possible)…

HW(pitcherinthewry.blogspot.com) supplied us a N.Y. Times article indicating that lifespan disparity between the rich and poor in the U.S. had increased to incredible proportions.While modified by gender,race,and ethnicity the fact…

We're in the middle of black history month and the police shootings continue.The democratic party fight between Bernie and Hilary is intensifying and the republican party contest resembles a Valentines…

Last Friday evening or early Saturday morning,supreme court justice Antonin Scalia died.Indisputably the foremost adherent to and definer of strict constructionist thought Scalia turned the supreme court away from constitutional…

JTG and SB have brought to my attention that on the Monday evening preceding the Iowa caucus, Melissa Harris Perry of MSNBC and Wake Forest University,was verbally assaulted and threatened…