Memorial Day, a day on which we honor those who’ve served their country, always feels much more solemn to me than the way we celebrate it, with picnics and long weekends at the beach. People are maimed and killed in wars, and it is too often unnecessary.
American soldiers should never be put in harm’s way until it is absolutely necessary, and our mighty arsenal ought not be employed against any nation except as a last resort. The sacrifice a soldier makes, especially now that the armed forces are all volunteer, is a noble one. We should always remember that.
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Academic Freedom Media Review
Academic Freedom Media Review
May 22 – 28, 2010
Below is the weekly compilation of news articles addressing issues of academic freedom that is put together by Scholars at Risk.
MLA Pushes for End to Ideological Denials of Visas
Inside Higher Ed, 5/28
Groups protest Israel denying US student’s entry
Jeff Karoun, The Associated Press, 5/27
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Stop this Dangerous Rhetoric
A drive for signatures on a petition from Credo says that in his new book FOX News contributor Newt Gingrich compared President Obama’s administration to Nazi Germany saying that his “secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”
If anyone has read this book, I’d be interested in knowing how Gingrich defines socialism. It is an oft repeated charge, and I don’t understand it, because this country has a long way to go before it even become a “mixed” economy. Even the health care reform measures that passed recently will work through private insurance! Essentially the new policies of the administration check the excesses of capitalism, no more and no less. It has been acknowledged since the first recession of the Modern era that this is necessary.
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What I'm Listening To…
Every once in a while I like to post some of the things I am listening to, just to see what you think of them. Here are the ten most recent songs that scrolled through my iPhone playlist when set on shuffle.
What are you listening to?
- One Night Only (The March)-Trombone Shorty
- Love Tattoo–Imelda May
- Old Rugged Cross-Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Talking About Little Walter–David “Honeyboy” Edwards
- Love Ain’t Gonna Let You Down–Jamie Cullum
- Oh Honey–Langhorne Slim
- Miami–RimK
- Flame of the Uninspired–K.D. Lang
- Sweet and Low Down–Sarah Vaughan and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- A Vava Inouva 2–Idir
- Full Steam–David Gray with Annie Lennox
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What were Tuesday's Elections About?
There is no doubt that there is a lot of frustration across the country with Washington. There always is some simmering level of it. It’s in the nature of the American psyche to be suspicious of the establishment. But in their analysis of a small number of off-year and off-season election results on Tuesday, the media has really overstated the case. They’re looking for a story, I suppose. In fact, I don’t think that was much of an issue at all.
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Two New Versions of Cry Me A River
There are songs that are such classics that they are recorded over and over, generation after generation, and they still seem contemporary. “Cry Me a River” was written in 1953 and first recorded by the British actress Julie London in 1955 as part of the movie musical The Girl Can’t Help It. It was Ella Fitzgerald who introduced it to Jazz fans, though, and it has been recorded by so many great jazz artist since, especially the vocalists, including Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Etta James, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dexter Gordon, Fourplay, etc.
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Up on the Ridge Tour
from L to R Travis Linville, Hayes Carll and Bonnie Whitmore at the Music Hall