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Author Archives: jalesy55
GENEROSITY IN ART
We’ve stopped blaming Yoko Ono for the breakup of the Beatles. Too many factors were involved in the great band’s dissolution. John Lennon was not pushed by his wife Yoko into leaving. As my grandfather used to say, people do … Continue reading
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THE CRITICAL RACE
Racism permeates our governmental policies. It permeates our police programs. It has influenced our legislation, and led to the mass incarceration morass. It’s high time we broke out of these dead-end policies. This can first be achieved by questioning. The … Continue reading
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BACK TO PLATO
I’ve been having to revisit some political papers I wrote back in college. One was on Daniel Webster. It became clear to me from the research for that paper that a major problem exists in the U.S. on the issue … Continue reading
WHAT HAPPENED
We seemed to be sitting high on a hill. The stars seemed not so far from our grasp. The medical, scientific and technological advances of our last century were lightning upon the march of history. Then the pandemic occurred. Large … Continue reading
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A CHURCH HISTORY
Recently I pushed a book of essays, THE CHURCH THROUGH TIME, which is something of an informal history of the Catholic Church. This week, from today, April 27th, through Friday, the book is available for free on Amazon.
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GATEKEEPERS
There are people in education- You’ve seen them. They are the gatekeepers. Learning they view as a rodent To be kept out of their schools. Thought, riding on the heels of Questions, they even more detest.
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BACK TO NORMAL SOMEWHAT
So now with vaccines widely given, we move back to normal in faltering steps. Not, of course, in the states that have reopened too quickly. In those jurisdictions large numbers of the unmasked have pushed against each other, with the … Continue reading
BAT
The following is a short story recently written by me. I have already published one short story collection, A LAWYER’S CASEBOOK, and hope to have another out some time in the not too distant future. CEL I came across a … Continue reading
TRUMP CULT, OR PARTY IN CRISIS
In the late 1940’s, a number of southern Democrats came to view President Truman as being too much in favor of civil rights for black Americans. In response to this, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina formed a group he called … Continue reading
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