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1050 ESPN expands Brandon Tierney, adds Rob Parker
WatchdogDidn't I tell you I could just post these news releases all day long? I'm just getting warmed up. Here's one from 1050 ESPN on the expansion of Brandon Tierney's show and the addition for part of it of former......Tags: Columbia University, ESPN (tv network), New York Knicks
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Obama Accountable For Troubling Questions
The Hartford CourantNot since the killing of Trayvon Martin has the nation heard the president speak as long and directly about blacks and his experience as a black man as he did at Morehouse College's commencement ceremony last weekend. At Morehouse, he referred to...Tags: Minority Groups, Benghazi, Colleges and Universities, Gun Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Give Terrorist A Burial — Then Move On
The Hartford CourantI confess, there are times I wish we could march a band of angels into hell to bring them back. Yes. March a band of angels through the gates of hell to serve them with a warrant for their immediate extradition to the land of the living to face us, the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism
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Thankfully, There Is No Right To Own Bombs
The Hartford CourantIn the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, I was thinking how thankful we, the American people, should be that the right to bear bombs was not included in the Second Amendment. If bombs were part of the Second Amendment, the National Rifle...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America
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Exposing Wrongdoing Serves The People
The Hartford CourantThere will always be an inherent conflict between a government that wants to guard its information, and journalists and citizens who want access to it. Although there is a recognition that some information should be kept secret, a democracy needs its...Tags: The Washington Post, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), The New York Times, Armed Conflicts
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Black Males Must Aim For Academic Top
The Hartford Courant"As anyone who has watched the better colored teams will tell you — a good many Afro-Americans belong, on their merits." John Lardner in the Hartford Courant, Nov. 11, 1938. With opening day of the 2013 baseball season just days away, a 75-...Tags: Baseball, Bo Jackson, USA Today, Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner
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Fight For Freedom Leaves Ugly Chapters
The Hartford CourantTriumphantly they passed beneath the confetti-filled sky as a jubilant crowd lined the streets. Then, in the blink of an eye, they were gone. But my camera captured them: Nelson and Winnie Mandela. June 1990. New York City. He was just five months...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), New York City
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Getting Control Of Guns For All Americans
The Hartford Courant"If The Civil Rights era has to be mentioned at all in the current gun debate, it's that the U.S. would be safer if blacks had stayed at the back of the bus — without access to firearms." — Email from reader taking issue with citing Emmett...Tags: Shootings, Barack Obama, Gun Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Personal Weapon Control
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What's An Acceptable Civilian/Terrorist Drone Kill Ratio?
The Hartford Courant"Honk! Honk! Honk!" The sound filled the air as I walked to my car in the Southern Connecticut State University parking lot. With bag in one hand and keys in the other, I looked skyward at a flock of geese to my right. As I reached my car ready to pop...Tags: Stanford University, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), New York University, Human Rights, Armed Conflicts
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Sandy Hook Pictures Would Change Debate
The Hartford Courant"The mutilated face of the victim was left untouched by morticians at the mother's request. She said she wanted 'all the world' to witness the atrocity." Jet Magazine, Sept. 15, 1955, on the open-casket funeral of 14-year-old Emmett Till. The wounds...Tags: Shootings, Barack Obama, Gun Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), National Rifle Association of America
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America Must Focus On Curbing All Guns
The Hartford CourantLike the addict who dies of a potent overdose, the other addicts want some of that. So it is with gun sales after a mass shooting. They rise before the dead are even buried. Mass shootings are like one killer ad — and gun lovers want some of what'...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, The Washington Post, Civil Rights, Shootings, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Enjoying Each Moment With My Daughters
The Hartford CourantOn the day after the Newtown massacre, my two youngest daughters and I rode a horse-drawn carriage around the New Haven Green. We had seen it as we drove past the big Christmas tree and from their car seats in the back they had said, "Can we ride?" "We'...Tags: here! (tv network), Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Holidays, New Haven Green
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