by Henry Oliner | Jul 31, 2007 | Humor
My dad just spent a week at the Medical Center in Macon, GA. He is doing fine.The Medical Center’s Main Entrance is located on Hemlock Street. The pharmacy in the building bears the last name of the owner; David Graves. (Graves Pharmacy).I am told that they...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 31, 2007 | Politics
I find history interesting because in an uncertain complicated world the results of our actions are often unclear in the present. Present biases are replaced with results that are slightly but not totally clearer, and less subject to the spin of current office...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 31, 2007 | Iraq, Politics
from The New Republic, Victor David HasonIn a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from blunders to wisdom, the side that makes the fewest and learns from them the most eventually winning. Al Qaeda and the insurgents in 2004-6 developed the means, both...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 29, 2007 | Philosophy, Politics
Unspun – Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson does a good job of demonstrating how information is spun to achieve objectives beyond the facts.But a few of the subjects repeated require more than mere...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
While the great missing story in our media is the success of the reinforcements (we call it a surge), the real success is probabaly coming form the excess of Al Queda. Extremists like Al Queda always go too far. Iraq was a largely secular society and they are not...
