BY VERN TURNER One of my favorite pundits, Maureen Dowd, wrote a scathing piece recently reviewing Dark Dick Cheney’s interview from an upcoming Showtime program The World According to Dick Cheney. Any reasonable, thinking person knew all along that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was his handiwork, but not until I read Dowd’s analysis [...]
BY SHARON MARTIN When I was maybe five or six, I asked my father, “Why does God always go into battle with the Israelites when he says, ‘Thou shalt not kill’”? Dad tried to explain the difference between murder and killing in war, but I wasn’t buying it. I still don’t. We humans have always [...]
BY VERN TURNER In my childhood I met many of my father’s friends who fought in World War II. Some walked with a limp. Some had scars on their bodies. All of them had scars in their minds. As a curious kid I asked them about their war experiences and they were very patient to [...]
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