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Outside the Walls

Disabling the winning formula, working to change the usual conversation

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Last Friday my second post about the aftermath of the Boston Marathon came shortly after the identity of the suspects in the bombings were given faces and names.

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Meeting the Space Age, up close

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

I suppose the space age began for me sometime in late October or November, 1957.

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North Dakota, abortion, and state vs. individual rights

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Recently, within a day or two of each other, came two links: one from a present day and lifelong North Dakotan; the other from a born and raised, but many years out-of-state North Dakota native.

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The power of ideas: People and peace at the 25th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

My colleague blogger, Grace Kelly, asked me as we were leaving the Forum today, if I planned to write about the last three days.

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Listening to the Governor of Minnesota

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Tuesday noon we, along with several hundred others, braved Twin Cities roads to gather at a lunch at McNamara Alumni Center at the University of Minnesota.

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The Hennepin County Board and the UN Flag: Tearing down a flag and diminishing our community, with scarcely a public notice

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

NOTE TO READER: This long post is an effort to convey information, and opinion, about a specific issue I wasn’t aware of, in a community other than my own. I was not seeking to find the issue. To some, the issue described may seem small and insignificant, and it was and remains a non-mandatory issue for the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners – they can do what they wish to do. Nonetheless, to this writer, the voluntary action described illustrates simply one example of a careless action, ignorance of history, and a (possibly) inadvertent and very negative change in tone of leadership in our civil society.

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Ten years ago we were in the run-up to the Iraq War. Where are we now?

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Early today a friend sent a link to a commentary about massive world-wide demonstrations against the pending War against Iraq on February 15, 2003.

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Thoughts on Martin Luther King's "Why We Can’t Wait"

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Yesterday at Mass at Basilica of St. Mary visiting Priest, Fr. Pat Griffin, in his homily, included a snippet of Martin Luther King’s writing: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly….”

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President Obama's moment: Confronting our culture of violence

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

In my opinion, Wednesday, January 17, 2013, will go down as President Obama’s John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King moment.

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