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Posts tagged as “Obama”

Letters To The Editor

RECRUITING THE DEAD TO WAGE PEACE Editor: They repose in a verdant park with manicured lawns, bright flowers and splashing fountains near Romaone-sous-Montfaucon, France. They are the dead of the Meuse-Argonne battles in 1918 in…

The Tweet & Revolution

President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton rushed to contrast the repressive brutality of the Iranian authorities with what they now seek to present as the bloodless, US-managed triumph of pro-democracy forces in Egypt. By…

Letters To The Editor

LOCAL-FRIENDLY WINE Dear Editor, In these days of declining tourist dollars, with wine tasting rooms springing up like mushrooms to divide the attention of those tourists who do make it up here, and in light…

Music For The Sickbed

Using music as medicine goes back to Antiquity and beyond. The Greeks were not alone in recognizing that music was powerful stuff, capable of not only calming the body, but also of rousing it. Administered…

President Gasbag

After watching President Obama’s state of the union, plus the first Republican response to it by Rep Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and the second response by Rep Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, chair of the Tea…

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