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We once rioted over a tax on tea
Michael Brown didn’t deserve to be shot dead. Darren Wilson shouldn’t have had a big guy tussle with him…
The nadir of American “politics”?
This election, Nov. 4, 2014, may have been where America hit political rock bottom. At least I hope so. Estimates of…
Why Dayton politics are like a game of hockey with bad referees
Saturday night I went to see the Dayton Demonz play a game of hockey at Hara Arena. Very early in the game an obvious…
Time to change the national anthem and chuck the constitution: Police militarization
It’s this photo that makes my stomach turn. This is not a police force to “Serve and protect”- but a…
The crime scene instant replay hypocrisy
The first thing the rabble rousing reverends call for in the recent police shooting of a young black man in a lily…
Why property values and tax revenues are dropping: and how to solve it
Just back from a contentious meeting of Historic South Park Inc. For the last year, the County Prosecutor’s…
The dirty little secret of the VA: failures in government contracting
While Congress continues to feast on the foibles of the VA, pointing fingers at anything that moves, one little minor…
The real reason Boehner wants to privatize the VA
Gen. Eric Shinseki is in charge of the VA, and is a service-disabled veteran. The operation is immense. one of the…
Hits, runs and errors. Society’s failings- not baseball.
I’ve never been afraid in Dayton, Ohio. Maybe because I’m wired wrong. On the way home from the first…

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