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By Clay Evans Note (with apologies to Patrick Swayze): Sorry for the interruption, folks, but I always review Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth movies for the Daily Camera. This year somebody told me not to. So I’m gonna do my kind of reviewin’of the … [Continue reading]
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 Here in the age of the 140-character missive, fabricated Facebook meme and passion-inflaming video, precise language … [Continue reading]
By Clay Bonnyman Evans It’s always so bittersweet, isn’t it, when Election Day has passed? After Americans come together in a unified show of civic pride and duty, fully informed about the issues and candidates to pull the lever — excuse me, … [Continue reading]
The United States is in the midst of a flinty, secular Calvinist revival, judging the poor, the disadvantaged and the unemployed. You may have read House Speaker John Boehner's recent remark, "This idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy … [Continue reading]
This piece by retired U.S. Army Col. Andrew Bacevich will prove to be painfully prescient. Bacevich, the George McGovern fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, is writing a history of U. S. military involvement in … [Continue reading]