Mother Palin: An Election Spec...

Nov 4, 2008 by

See last month’s entry, The Virgin Palin, for a precursor to this posting IF ONE ACCEPTS the argument from The Virgin Palin...

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The Virgin Palin

Oct 14, 2008 by

  WHEN JOHN MCCAIN announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, a number of Doubting Thomases within the ranks questioned his...

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The Way of the Arpha (Part III...

Jul 4, 2007 by

The first part of this piece is the May 4 entry and the second part is the June 4 entry. 8. THE LAMP THE EPICENTER of the training...

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The Way of the Arpha (Part II)

Jun 4, 2007 by

The first part of this piece is the May 4 entry. 3 GRIVAS AFTER ROLL CALL at morning lineup, a corporal announced that those who...

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The Way of the Arpha (Part I)

May 4, 2007 by

(see the April 4 posting Three Months in the Life of the Cypriot National Guard for a preface to this piece)     arphas...

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The Bishop

Dec 4, 2006 by

ONE of the premiere comedy spots in the world lies in an imposing neo-Byzantine building in the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus, bearing...

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The Art of Deferral

Jan 4, 2006 by

UPON READING Harold Pinter’s recent Literature Nobel Prize speech, a denunciation of US foreign policy, I thought I would focus on...

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