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Shared sacrifice: not a chance

UncategorizedBy John YoungApril 5, 2011Leave a comment

    It was Idi Amin who once said, “In any country there must be people who have to die.” He was making himself that allowance in reference to sundry uprisings, mass graves and his own political survival. Barbaric? Well, sure.     His form of leadership brings to mind the sacrifice of 10-year-old Nubia Barahona.…

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Xs, Os — and sexual orientation?

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 30, 2011Leave a comment

     When the almost all-black Texas Western team shocked an all-white Kentucky squad in the 1966 NCAA men’s basketball championship, the announcers did not report, “A stunning victory for the negroes.”      No, they remarked on a stunning team feat.      When Emily Neimann hit her fifth of five majestic three-pointers to…

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Backward march into future

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 23, 2011Leave a comment

     Dwight Eisenhower puts all of his political capital on the line to advance an audacious notion: a national highway system. He is rebuffed when states refuse to play along. They complain that even if the federal government pays 90 percent, these will be their highways to maintain, with costs associated. They want no part of…

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Our insatiable, abominable testing culture

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 8, 2011Leave a comment

   Damn the evidence. Full speed ahead.    Damn the costs. Full speed ahead.    Nothing — not legitimate questions about efficacy, not staggering costs amid general budget bloodletting — will stay the maddening march toward more standardized testing for America’s school children.    In Texas, school districts brace for $9.8 billion in budget cuts which…

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‘Pottery barn rule’ revised

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 1, 20111 Comment

    Observe now the touting of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for president.     Many who can’t find the Muscatatuck River on a map will wonder. Mitch who? But Daniels is no nobody. As a poly-sci entity, he is much known. He was George W. Bush’s first budget director in Washington.      As president,…

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One Mississippi, two Mississippi . . .

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 24, 2011Leave a comment

    You’ve got to respect Marva Beck’s religion, in a quaint, Lake Wobegon way.     The newly elected Republican has come to Austin with this belief to express: Texas government, “too big.”      Understand where she’s coming from. To one from Centerville, almost anything of a Texas-size dimension would be a humongous.      But…

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The family that Skypes together

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 23, 2011Leave a comment

    Almost 30 years ago I came to appreciate an adage about friends that guides me still: Distance can’t sever that which “want-to” holds intact.      Back then, a childhood pal had followed his muse to Japan, making it his home. The end of our friendship? Hardly.    Just as we had done when…

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From reality TV to the White House

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 15, 20111 Comment

     History calls on Rob Dyrdek.      A nation awaits word. Run for president, Rob. Run as a Republican. You have what it takes.      Mainly, and most importantly, you have a reality television show. Make that two. That makes you doubly qualified.      One could not help but think of…

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It’s anti-choice, and anti-American

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 8, 2011Leave a comment

  A. Baseball. Hot dogs. Motherhood. Birth control pills.     Q. Name four things that are as American as apple pie.     Anyone who would exclude any of the items above is living deep, deep in another century.     Someone, please, ask the Republican Party in which century it intends for us to…

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Justice comes to the party

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 2, 2011Leave a comment

      Now, isn’t that special? Rep. Michelle Bachmann held a Capitol Hill soiree the other day. And who showed up to speak but Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.       We can only imagine what Justice Scalia had to say to members of the House Tea Party Caucus at the “constitutional education class"…

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