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In the Pipeline: Making noise over minute of silence
With the Olympics starting this coming week, I wanted to point out that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the worst day in Olympic history. In 1972, at the Munich games, eight Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine...
Tags: International Olympic Committee, Sports Organizations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Disneyland Park, Terrorism
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The 2nd Amendment - Our right today
Somerset TownshipThe Second Amendment to the Constitution states "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." While our founders unanimously agreed this is a...Tags: Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Nazi Party, Gun Control
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Commentary: Lying about military service is not protected speech
Xavier Alvarez, after being elected in 2007 to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District in Pomona, introduced himself at his first board meeting as a wounded war veteran who had received the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest honor. But when it was...Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Don't miss folk singer in Aberdeen
George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana's point in this much misunderstood phrase, according to historian Ted McAllister, is that without memory each generation is forced to learn...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Crimes, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California
Culture MonsterNational Endowment for the Humanities issues $40 million in grants, including $3.2 million to California museums, scholars and documentary filmmakers. Documentaries win the biggest grants; others sponsor seminars aimed to improve college and secondary... -
Mesa Musings: Smurfing good times are back
The Smurfs are enjoying a renaissance in our household. You're familiar with the Smurfs, aren't you? Those little blue men — and one blue woman, (the "Smurfette") — who inhabit little mushroom-like cottages in a clearing somewhere in the...Tags: North Carolina, Human Interest, The Smurfs (movie), Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc., DVDs
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For Americans, to infinity and beyond
![President Obama tried to use the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden to get Americans to think big again. The successful end of a 10-year manhunt, he declared last week, was a "testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-05/61428599-07172746.jpg "President Obama tried to use the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden to get Americans to think big again. The successful end of a 10-year manhunt, he declared last week, was a "testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.\"")
President Obama tried to use the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden to get Americans to think big again. The successful end of a 10-year manhunt, he declared last week, was a "testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Space Programs, Barack Obama, Philosophy, Satellite Technology
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Community Commentary: 'The Fair is dead, long live the Fair'
The fairgrounds sale is now in its 18th mind-numbing month. Still, it is difficult to understand the events leading up to today. As one who spent that 18 months at the vortex, I will spare you the hundreds of details, save for a few, even though there are...Tags: Marathon, Arts and Culture, Thomas Paine, William Shakespeare, Sports
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Fashion goes all McCarthy era on us
Opinion L.A.Fashion repeats its trends endlessly. This is because chic doesn’t take George Santayana’s advice about learning the lessons of history – in fashion’s case sometimes bad history – it’s doomed to repeat them, even the hideous ones. [Do you hear... -
Marjorie Grene dies at 98; historian of philosophy known as independent thinker
![When the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers chose Marjorie Grene as the subject of the 29th volume in its series, the feisty 90-something thinker and writer downplayed her selection with characteristic self-deprecation. "I think," she told a reporter in 2003, "they just desperately wanted a woman."](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-03/45715836-21195919.jpg "When the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers chose Marjorie Grene as the subject of the 29th volume in its series, the feisty 90-something thinker and writer downplayed her selection with characteristic self-deprecation. "I think,\" she told a reporter in 2003, \"they just desperately wanted a woman.\"")
When the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers chose Marjorie Grene as the subject of the 29th volume in its series, the feisty 90-something thinker and writer downplayed her selection with characteristic self-deprecation. "I think," she told a...Tags: Virginia Tech, Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Philosophy, England
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Letters to the editor
Politics of distraction Re “Obama clears himself and staff,” Dec. 16 The election is over and everybody knows that President-elect Barack Obama is working very hard to address a number of serious problems. It's nothing short of outrageous,...Tags: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Government, Germany, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Stock Broking
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The mixed lessons, and legacies, of Munich 1938
Seventy years ago in Munich -- on Sept. 30, 1938 -- the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a document that allowed Nazi Germany to seize control of the Sudetenland, a large chunk of western Czechoslovakia heavily populated by ethnic...Tags: Nazi Party, Arts and Culture, Politics, Munich (Germany), Government
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