Items by James Atticus Bowden

• 59 and Counting

  —Deo Vindice

  This week my 59th birthday passed with the speed of going through a yield sign when you can see the way clearly.  So, now I am 59 years old and counting – to infinity. I’m only a year away from the age of my father, James Albert Bowden, when he died.  [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:16pm EST
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• The End of Oprah

  —Deo Vindice

  Oprah Winfrey ends her TV show in 2011.  Hurray.  Good for America.  Great for Christians. Certainly, somone will try to follow her as the diva of powerful female connections with folly for talk and stirring emotions. The sooner her bullhorn of sophistry as caring sweetness is silenced the better for America. Maybe some tough, bright, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• How Much More Incompetence Is Needed

  —Deo Vindice

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  H0w much more incompetence is needed until 60% of American voters are thrilled to go vote out the Democrats in 2010 and 2012?  Even BHO by a 60:40 margin. Recovery.Gov posted the bogus claims of jobs created by the Federal government stimulus spending.  It even claimed bogus jobs in bogus congressional [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:53pm EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Another Life Transition

  —Deo Vindice

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  Today was my last day with a major Defense Corporation.  It was my third corporation.  Waiting to start work with a small start up.  I’ve already done some work with them.  Waiting to start 40 hours a week.  Not there yet. Interesting how low my anxiety is.  Feel great.  Excited about [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:42pm EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Islam’s Civilizations Are Barbaric Compared to the West

  —Deo Vindice

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  Hear it from a former Muslim.  Who now has to hide and have 24/7 security – because of her words.  You see if you just say the wrong things – das ist Verboten – about Islam, then at least one in ten Muslims want to kill you.  One in ten [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:05am EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• The Problem With Being Muslim and American

  —Deo Vindice

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   A Muslim-Army major murdered many people and wounded many more at Ft Hood today.   Since 1775 no Christian or Jewish officer has ever done that.   Yet, it isn’t a surprise that a Muslim officer would do it - if he were a devout Muslim.   A Muslim-American officer has to choose to be a devout Muslim or a [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Big Wins

  —Deo Vindice

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  Big wins in Virginia – congratulations to Bob, Bill and Ken.  And, in my district to Tom Gear.  Sorry that Phil Hamilton lost.   Very sorry. Big wins in Virginia but the big story is NY 23.  If the Conservative whens there over both the Democrats and the Establishment Republicans, it shows [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:56pm EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Happy Reformation Day

  —Deo Vindice

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  On October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church.   It became the official start of the Protestant Reformation.  492 years of new light on the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jan Hus could have started the whole movement the century before [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:38am EST
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Futures Tutorial 25: Geopolitics to Virginia

  —Deo Vindice

    The view from 1990-92 on how Geopolitics will matter to Virginia 2005-2015.    Name the Geopolitical issue and see what questions it raises with what big ideas in the background.  I made up the word ‘finitudes’ to describe the finite resources of land, air and water which must be protected and used [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Tragedy of Tolerance

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 5
  The College of William & Mary undergraduates selected a very troubled classmate as their Homecoming Queen.  Certainly it was all a big joke to many of them.  All done in great fun.  And the young man, who sometimes is a girl or might have the operations to become an ersatz [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Choose Which America You Want To Live In

  —Deo Vindice

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  Choose between the two Americas.  See which one is better.  President Obama proposes an American of hope and change based on income redistribution.  See what happens to the income of Americans under his socialist economics. Even if you support Liberal class warfare, look what happens to the poor and middle [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Evidence of End Times for American Civilization

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 4
  This is evidence of the end times for American Civilization – unless We, The People fix the Nation.  The evidence comes from where America began – in Virginia.  Williamsburg, no less.  The College of William and Mary, second oldest college in the country,  got rid of its mascot – the [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Futures Tutorial 24: Society – Implications for Virginia

  —Deo Vindice

    So, in 1990-92, what did we think would be the social challenges of 2005-2015.  Pretty much linear extrapolation of problems then.  The illegal immigrant issue was seen in another presentation as a large threat to the U.S.  But, it didn’t come up on our radar as a specific social challenge.  [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
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• Futures Tutorial 23: Education and Economics

  —Deo Vindice

  Still pushing my way through the Army 21 long range futures study – as I shaped it to fit Virginia’s future for the same period.  Which is now.  The work was done 15 years before hand (and the crowd went, “Ah!”).  Also, I know I could make two blog entries [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Beautiful Video

  —Deo Vindice

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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Duty, Honor, Family

  —Deo Vindice

  Daughter and son-in-law on last weekend getaway before 3rd combat deployment.   Praise the Lord that we can babysit 24/7 this weekend.  Look forward to the day when I can babysit – not pre-deployment – for as yet unborn babies from my other two children.  What a great day for the [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• 3.6 Million Reasons Why Obama Fails

  —Deo Vindice

  The study of economics – micro and macro – includes consideration for the amount of time it takes for an input to the economic system – a stimulus bill, a bailout, or a tax cut – to have its full effect.  Nowhere in that body of knowledge is it taught [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:19pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• On Bailouts and Bonuses

  —Deo Vindice

  Heard the socialist elites (not a contradiction in terms – they are elites who can support socialism because they already have financial wealth) on NBC whining about the upcoming bonuses big banks will pay out. The socialists were complaining that banks are giving out the taxpayer’s – our – money in [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:09am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Futures Tutorial #21: Technology and Virginia 2005-2015 – from 1991.

  —Deo Vindice

  Back to finishing off this series.  We’re working through the implications of change for the years 2005-2015 – from our study, Army 21, in 1990-92.   The point of the futures study - the implications adn findings  – were modifed from the Army and the U.S. by me – to see what matters [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:59pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Why We Should Celebrate Columbus Day

  —Deo Vindice

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  Traditional Columbus Day was October 12th.  I read of some untraditional, or, perhaps, new traditional teaching about Columbus Day.  Some public school teachers held mock courts for Christopher Columbus for crimes against humanity, or  taught about the details of his ‘crimes’  against native peoples.  They missed the movement – following Columbus’s [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:26am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Political Corruption in Virginia – Gentlemanly and Genteel

  —Deo Vindice

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     Every student of American history knows Tammany Hall in New York City set the standard on how to do corruption.   Not, that Chicago, Boston, Memphis or many, many other cities and rural counties  couldn’t compete for corrupting every aspect of local representative government at different points in history.   It’s as [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Folly and Grand Folly

  —Deo Vindice

  King Solomon said at the end of his life, “The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.  Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Wrapping Up My Christian Retreat

  —Deo Vindice

    The Christian retreat in Colorado ended with a business meeting.  Seven men are considering a start up company.  Defense Contracting and Consulting Wherever We Can Find Interesting Work (not the actual name of the proposed company).    The first evening we gave our individual Christian testimonies.  They were as different as our [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:40pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Part 3: The Fall Festival of Booths – Succoth

  —Deo Vindice

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  Succoth is the Feast of Booths.   Remember what it was like wandering around the desert for 40 years?  This is how the Hebrews lived.  So, build a shelter of fronds.  Live it in for a week.   Get in touch with your innner, ancestral Hebrew if you are Jewish. So, here is the [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Second Hebrew Fall Festival: Yom Kippur

  —Deo Vindice

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    Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the second Fall festival the Lord God ordered the Hebrews to observe.  It has an exact day – the 1oth day of the 7th month on the lunar calendar (Leviticus 23:26).  I’d like to know what the precision of the date means – [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• One Christian’s Learning About Hebrew Fall Festivals: Pt 1.

  —Deo Vindice

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  Last week I went on a Christian retreat with 7 guys and a Preacher.   I’d known one of the fellows for a couple of months.  So, we strangers set out to learn more about the Hebrew Fall Festivals in the beauty of Colorado in its Fall. We’re not trying to be [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:20am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• God Created All Creatures

  —Deo Vindice

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HJTG6RRN4E&feature=player_embedded#Dog Hero   Genesis 9:5 says that animals and men will be judged.  It will be 5 years in December since my dog friend died.  I miss him still. http://www.americancivilization.net/articles/2004/Last_Conversation_with_Coal_Dawg.pdf [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Rush Is Right Again – On the Way Forward

  —Deo Vindice

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  Here is an  excerpt from Rush’s program the other day - “RUSH: Wait, hear me out. It’s going to lead to people say, “Both parties are the same, there’s no difference, Republicans and Democrats.” What we have to focus on here is taking back the Republican Party. I think there is enough rage [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Quick Sitrep

  —Deo Vindice

  Meeting finished early, so I left 24th floor panoramic conference room of DC (from Rosslyn in  Arlington where I grew up) and drove home instead of staying the night.  Saw 6 rainbows.  Thought about God’s promises.  And the wonder of a child – sharing it when I could with my [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Race, Class, and Gender(s) Indoctrination at The University

  —Deo Vindice

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  White Guilt Awareness Day by Caroline Rushing If you are straight, white, and male, please stand up. Congratulations, you are more privileged than you probably ever realized. Because of your blessed birth, you are responsible for the victimization of thousands of your underprivileged peers. You may not be aware, but implicitly you [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Last Day at Infantry Conference

  —Deo Vindice

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  Last day at the Infantry conference.  The day started with Lieutenant General and former Ambassador Dell Dailey’s presentation.  When I saw him last night, it was the first time in 31 years.  31 years.  Thirty-one years since service together in 2nd Battalion 21st Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, Ft Stewart, GA.  [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:42pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• GEN Petraus Speaks on His Two Campaigns

  —Deo Vindice

  Heard GEN Dave Petraus speak for almost two hours (unclassified) to the annual Infantry conference today.  First time I’ve heard him speak.  Met him once when he came by when he was at Ft. Monroe to say “Hi” almost 20 years ago.   We both had taught in the same department [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Two Walks Down Memory Lane

  —Deo Vindice

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  Chickamauga:  Wonderful time with family – daughter, son-in-law, first cousin and his son.  Saw where all four of my Mother’s ancestors fought in the 2 SC and 16 SC Infantry.  Thrilled and fascinated  seeing where their regiments came on line and went up against the enemy.  One gg-gfather was killed there.  His wife and [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Fundraiser for Virginia Attorney General in Tidewater

  —Deo Vindice

  FACEBOOK LINK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127813576363 Join us on the James with Virginia’s next Attorney General Sen. Ken Cuccinelli Sunday, September 27, 5-7pm at the home of Cary & Doug Nunnally 9 Hilton Terrace • Newport News, Virginia $25 per person; $40 per couple RSVP by mail (address below)                                 [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:45pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• The National Conversation on Race Is Finally Here

  —Deo Vindice

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  The long-awaited national conversation on Race finally took place.  Former President Carter accused critics of President Obama of racism.  That sparked the final outing of truth on Race in America – the  2009 version.  Three people spoke for 300 million Americans.  A third of the country is Liberal.  A third of [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 10:01pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Calling the Obama Race Card a Year and a Half Ago

  —Deo Vindice

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  Wrote this in early 2008 Obama-Baiting Speaking Obama’s whole name, Barack Hussein Obama, is attacking Obama.  According to Liberals.  It’s a racist, anti-Muslim baiting of Obama.  Because the name Barack Obama points to Africa.  The name Hussein points to Islam.  His name “plays on the fears of voters.”  It doesn’t matter that [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Meanings for the 9-12 March on Washington

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 7
  The meaning of the 9-12 march on Washington had as many meanings as marchers.  Which was from 60 thousand to 2 million.  The variance in those numbers measures the gaping distance between those on the Left and Right, Liberal and Conservative, Obamorons and anti-Socialists, MSM and bloggers connected to experts, [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• From September 2001: One Front, Two Wars

  —Deo Vindice

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      Written in September 2001.  Prescient words – except I didn’t know that President Bush would let Sec Def Rumsfeld screw up the Operation Iraqi Freedom for 2 years.  And, the coalition of Muslim allies has held together better than I suspected – which doesn’t mean they will support the U.S. forever.  Still, [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 6:44am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Who, Whom? for Healthcare

  —Deo Vindice

  “I believe it was Lenin himself who introduced to Russia the famous phrase “who, whom?” – during the early years of Soviet rulethe byword in which the people summed up the universal problem of a socialist society.  Who plans for whom, who directs and dominates whom, who assigns other people [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Coming Armed to 9-12 Demonstrations

  —Deo Vindice

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  Bring a broom.  Any size- hand broom will do.  America is way past peasants with pitchforks.   We’re not at Concord bridge, so no need for Patriots packing anything other than a broom.   The broom is to sweep Congress clean.  Sweep Congress clean.  It’ll take 3 elections to do it.  During the [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 11:24pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Healthcare Show: 3 Stooges on One Stage

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 3
  Watching the masterpiece political theater of a Presidential address to the joint Session of Congress, I was struck when I suddenly realized that the President and his two closest successors were sharing the TV frame.  President B. Hussein Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi shared one stage tonight for the [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• My Personal Connection with Labor

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 5
  Labor, as in working, has been my life.  I started earning wages when I was 15.  Was self-supporting – thank you U.S. Army – at age 17.  Still in the harness now. But, my connection to the labor movement is a different personal story.  It’s about my Grandfather – the Atticus [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Futures Tutorial 20: First Findings for Virginia

  —Deo Vindice

    In 1996 I redid the Army 21 briefing with a focus on what the findings meant to the Commonwealth of Virginia.  The Army lawyers said I was good to go on intellectual property issues as long as I foot noted as in any scholarly paper.  The findings on the left [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Futures Tutorials Part 19: Most Likely World

  —Deo Vindice

      Ultimately, a futures study, like Army 21: 2005-2015, has to answer the question, “What’s Going to Happen?”   The graphic shows what we saw in 2005-2015 from our perch at Ft. Monroe, VA in 1990-1992.    The two big earth changing events are what drives the post-Cold War Era and post-Industrial Era – the Information Era.   The maps [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Back to Futures Tutorials: Challenges – Part 18

  —Deo Vindice

    Early this year I was sharing the findings from the futures study for 2005-2015 which I lead back in 1990-92: Army 21.   My aim was to share the methodology and the insights.   I was diverted by Virginia politics in l’affaire Frederick and then the Obamicide of America and the Tea Party [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• My Commentary on the Massacre at Beslan – 5 years ago.

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 6
  Beslan is to World War IV as Guernica is to World War II. Pablo Picasso immortalized Guernica’s horror in art. The videos from Beslan aren’t art, but they, too, may become international memory.  On April 26, 1937 the Nazi Totalitarians deliberately bombed civilians in Guernica, Spain. On September 3, 2004 [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy

  —Deo Vindice

    Ted Kennedy’s real legacy can be measured in dollars and cents – because it really is valued in dollars and cents. What happens to his personal wealth and his share of the family trust?  Years ago I remember reading that the Kennedy family was worth about $300 m. Kennedy supported the death [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:16pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Jihad by Paul Fregosi

  —Deo Vindice

  Number of comments: 2
  Jihad by Paul Fregosi was published in 1998.  3 years before 9-11.  It’s a European’s view of the long, long fight against Islamic invasion in Europe.   He covers the whole bloody history.  He describes the atrocities and hatred unleashed by both sides.  At the end of the book, the author describes the [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• My Personal Memories of Ted Kennedy

  —Deo Vindice

  I was at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, from September 1979 through June 1981.  Two wonderful years of study and learning.   New and different experiences that stay fresh, alive and wonderful in memory after 30 years.  Two testing years of family death, serious spouse illness, unrelenting work caring and [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:07pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden

• Listen to This Song

  —Deo Vindice

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on_AdFUJVH0 [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
  by James Atticus Bowden