| Jan 9, 2013 | Economy / BusinessHe did it. Unfortunately. Sadly. Disappointingly. President Barack Obama, reversing his own honorable precedent for his first inaugural, has chosen this time to have corporations pay for his second round of big shindigs. This multimillion-dollar infusion of corporate...
| | Rights / DemocracyLesser evil Ain’t enough, Back someone Who’s got the stuff. It’s hard for me to vote against an incumbent Democratic president — especially after those eight abysmal years with George W. Bush at the helm. Indeed, it seemed unlikely to me that any sentient creature...
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| Jan 4, 2013 | Peace / Security|RoundupAs OtherWords readers know, Donald Kaul’s first column in five months ran on Dec. 19. It was on gun control in the wake of the Newtown shootings and he wrote it in his usual satirical style. It’s hard to pull off any kind of humor when it comes to the very...
| | Peace / SecurityI think I hit a nerve. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a thoughtful, well-reasoned column suggesting ways to cut down on gun violence in our ever more violent society. It proposed, among other things: Repealing the Second Amendment and with it the right to buy assault...