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Friday, February 12, 2010

Black Pop Culture History: The Jeffersons

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When The Jeffersons hit the airwaves in 1975, I was a 6-year-old living in a white middle class neighborhood, attending a parochial school ...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Superbowl Hangover

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Well, it’s not the sort of hangover I expected. The Indianapolis Colts let go of the rope. They didn’t build on the two big playoff victorie...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Black Hoosier History: Lyles Station

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Indiana’s attitude toward slavery wavered generally between acceptance and neutrality, but as a whole, it was never a “slave state.” In fact...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Disaster in Haiti is sadly both natural AND man made

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Maybe the fact that I worked in emergency management for a number of years, and agonized over the government ineptitude during Katrina, has ...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Mickey Andrews Tribute

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With all the fanfare surrounding Bobby Bowden’s bittersweet exit fr om the college football landscape, I’d be remiss not to recognize his lo...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Salute to Bobby Bowden

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I would have loved to see Florida State Seminoles Coach Bobby Bowden go out on top, say after the 1999 National Championship, but hindsight...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Black Friday is a black mark on an otherwise festive holiday season

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reality time. watching the news tonight reminded me how much i despise what christmas has become in the western world (specifically america!...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Decker Township (Knox Co) Connections

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The excerpt above is from The History of Knox and Daviess counties, Indiana (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1886) . I found it while researchi...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Dwight Freeney: "Deal with it."

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"The most intimidating player" in the words of New England Patriot's QB Tom Brady is our very own Dwight Freeney. Now whether...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Make me a Top 50 blog!

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My Holocaust blog Never Again! has been nominated for the Top 50 Indiana Blogs . I urge you to go now and vote for my blog before the compe...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Echoes From Auschwitz

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Before the door to the cramped, foul-smelling cattle car was opened, Eva remembers her father saying his morning prayers. She also recalls ...
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Monday, October 05, 2009

Colts Assessment - Week 4

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After dismantling Seattle 34-17 in Week 4, the Colts are leading the NFL in a couple of offensive categories. And while the defense is middl...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

My one-month-old already up and running

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My Holocaust blog turns one month old today! Some of the most popular blog posts, so far: Title Views 1. Jews Murdered Between 1 Sept 1939 ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Inked in church pews and pulpits

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Leviticus 19:28 (NIV), "'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.’” The Contemporary E...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Redemption and the possibility of a perfect football weekend

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After humiliation by an arch-rival and near humiliation by a nobody team last week, this week was football redemption! I'm speaking abou...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Truly moving video at Never Again!

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I posted a truly moving video to my Holocaust blog this morning. It was so good, in fact, that I decided to post a link here, too . If you h...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Businesses doing 25 on the Info Superhighway!

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Many in today’s business world don’t get the fact that net life equals real life. Now, my objectivity might be a little skewed because I wa...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Champion for Holocaust Truth

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FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS This French priest has devoted his life to exposing the truth about the Jewish Holocaust in the Ukraine where more t...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Seminole Saturday...er...Monday Night!

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I lived in Tallahassee during the peak of Bobby Bowden's career at Florida State University . I count myself very lucky to have witnesse...
Monday, August 31, 2009

70 Years Ago Today, WWII and my family

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Above are pictures of my grandfathers Doyle and Wright from the 1940s. They served the United States valiantly, as did all the brave men and...
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