It was a CNN special. A Ku Klux Klan rally in Alabama. A small group of some fifteen klansmen shouting obscenities about Blacks and asserting that Alabama should be an all-white state. A menacing crowd surrounded the white-clad klansmen. But protecting them was a cordon of police officers. I was struck by the fact that […]
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This post includes both the written transcript and the video of this expert panel discussion on the Iraq War and the various exit strategies. This Town Hall Forum was recorded in Northbrook, IL on January 7, 2006. Co-sponsored by: Tenth Congressional District Democrats – www.tenthdems.orgNorth Suburban Peace Initiative – www.nspipeace.orgThe Democracy Cell Project – www.democracycellproject.net
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When John Paul II was elected pope in 1978, a Jesuit friend of mine in Rome telephoned me to say that the assembled cardinals had elected “the best of the commissars”. The subsequent twenty-seven years proved him to be right on target. The impetus of the Second Vatican Council died with John XXIII. Paul VI
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September 11, 2005 is the fourth anniversary of a tragic event that changed our nation’s history forever. Anniversaries like this are natural occasions to ask ourselves what we have learned during the interval, what we did right or wrong, and what we can do better in the future. Somehow this anniversary leads me to a