On April 14, rock star Ted Nugent made statements critical of President Obama at the convention of the National Rifle Association. After stating he would “be dead or in jail next year at this time” if Obama wins re-election, the musician was visited by the Secret Service. Fortunately, there will be no further investigation of Nugent, as the Secret Service has determined that his statement

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I was distressed to hear a Fox News report this morning…It stated that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said the 38 year old Army staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians “will receive capital punishment if convicted”. This is troubling. The words “may” or “could” were not used. The rhetoric is strong, and the hysteria is widespread. It is interesting to note that

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By now, anyone paying attention knows that pop music star Whitney Houston is dead. Like many music icons, her life ended in Hollywood, under questionable circumstances. Anyone paying attention to this website can probably guess that her death means little to me on a personal level. I have only minimal regard for pop musicians, and believe the majority of them to be self-aggrandizing fools. But

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It has been a strange week for me. On New Year’s Day I picked up my Navy son at the airport. He was headed for SERE school (Search, Evade, Resist, Escape). It’s a required class that all pilots and air crew must attend. I drove him from Boston to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I probably won’t see him for a year, since he is immediately relocating

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