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Bill O’Donnell
World War II High School Graduation Taunton Gazette: “After graduating from Coyle in 1943, O’Donnell enlisted in the U.S. Army as a trainee in the Army Specialized Training Program at Brooklyn College” The Army Specialized Training Program The Specialized Training Program sent 200,000 soldiers to 227 colleges for sped-up courses in engineering, medicine, dentistry, psychology,…
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RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip
Paul Krugman on the GOP, Science, and Health The war on science is turning deadly PAUL KRUGMAN, FEB 6, 2025 In a better world Donald Trump’s musings about taking back the Panama Canal would lead him or people around him to study the canal’s history. They won’t, of course. But if they did they’d learn…
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Air Traffic Controllers are Competent
In the wake of the collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter at Washington National, and Trump’s blaming the accident on diversity hiring, I’m reminded of Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The movie left me with two impressions. First, that governments are competent to organize meeting and communicating with visitors…
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the Ten Commandments in the Classroom
The Louisiana Law Louisiana House Bill No. 71 requires the following text to be posted in all “public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools”: “The Ten CommandmentsI AM the LORD thy God.Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy…
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Alabama Declares War on In vitro fertilization
Roe still got it right The argument against embryo personhood takes only one sentence: The living cells that are embryos cannot survive outside the womb. Life at conception may be your religious belief, but it’s not mine. And the first clause of the First Amendment says religious belief alone isn’t law. Alabama Supreme Court On…
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Freedom of Speech
Collected Quotes March 27, 2005 In 1912, feminist Margaret Sanger was arrested for giving a lecture on birth control. Trade union meetings were banned. Peaceful protesters opposing U. S. entry into World War I were jailed. In 1923, author Upton Sinclair was arrested for trying to read the text of the First Amendment at a…
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Palestine & Israel
Collected Quotes “If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention” January 22, 2004 Rachel Corrie, 23, before she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza Strip, March 16, 2003. ( REUTERS) The driver dragged his blade over her a second time while reversing back over her body. Corrie died of skull and chest fractures. (International…
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Bush and the Iraq War
Collected Quotes July 2, 2003 If you’re interested in peace, if you want people to grow up in a peaceful world, all parties must do everything they can to reject and stop violence. 53In response to a Tel Aviv bus bombing (September 19, 2002) If you want to keep the peace, you’ve got to have the…
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The Middle East and Islam
June 26, 2003 We must not deceive ourselves or the Iraqis or the Palestinians about the joint Arab capabilities to support them or to defend them. 66Sheik Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, king of Bahrain, speaking to his people of defending Iraq, while providing a home port for the U.S. Fifth Fleet (October 7, 2002) Many leaders…
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Enron and Others
Collected Quotes The genius of capitalism December 28, 2002 I want to assure you that I have never felt better about the prospects for the company. 1 Enron CEO Ken Lay, after selling $160 million of his own company stock (August 14, 2001) Enron used its political clout to create what one of its own…