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Tie a Yellow Ribbon: The endless war comes home again

By Rich Broderick

In the mid-1960s, when American cities erupted in rioting that left dozens dead and billions of dollars of devastation, many people rightly perceived the events as a sign that the unprecedented violence of the War in Vietnam was "coming home to roost."

What better way to perceive the killings this week at Fort Hood?MORE »

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Off-leash: Dogs, Paris, Heaven-on-Earth

by Rich Broderick | September 28, 2009 • The first off-leash dog park I ever visited was a 10 acre forested site centered on a bowl-shaped meadow in the middle of Battle Creek Regional Park.MORE »

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Whistlin' Dixie: The Slave Power rises again

by Rich Broderick | September 8, 2009 • Like the birther cult, like baseless claims that Barak Obama is a secret Muslim, socialist or fascist - take your pick - like the lies about "death panels," like the frightening displays of armed unreason at this summer's townhall meetings, the trumped up controversy over the anodyne speech the President delivered to schoolchildren on Tuesday was just anoMORE »

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Drug for “Restless Boy Syndrome” making critics jumpy

by Rich Broderick | 6/2/09 • Controversy has broken out over Merck Pharmaceuticals’ heavily promoted new prescription drug “Sitztilaty,” which the company claims is an effective treatment for “Restless Boy Syndrome," a recently identified disorder affecting pre- and early-adolescent males.
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