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Craig Russell is a writer and musician in upstate New York.

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Memorial Day 2003: Remember Why They Died
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Craig Russell 2003-05-21 16:00
The State has many ways to impress itself upon our consciousness. One of these is through granting us days off from work on what we quaintly call 'holidays.'
The Two-Edged Sword of Power
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Craig Russell 2003-05-18 16:00
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. ~Leonard Cohen In the spring of 1903, most people in upstate New York woke up in the cold. Their stoves were downstairs in the kitchen, and not much heat made it upstairs into the bedrooms.
Grammar and the Passive American
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Craig Russell 2003-05-13 16:00
Modern English . . . is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration. ~ George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Elections and the Lesson of Frodo
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Craig Russell 2003-05-08 16:00
Nine people who wish to become the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States recently 'debated' in South Carolina . The election, of course, is not for another year and a half, but the political drumbeat has already started ' a quiet, faint rumble in the background that will only grow in intensity over the next 18 months. Those in the employ of the Great American...
Liberate Literacy
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Craig Russell 2003-05-04 16:00
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' ~ John 1:1
Television and the State
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Craig Russell 2003-04-29 16:00
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ~ Exodus 20:4
Turn It Off
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Craig Russell 2003-04-23 16:00
Chances are you have one of the most insidiously dangerous objects ever created ' and one of the State's most powerful tools of domination ' in your living room right now. You may very well have one in your bedroom, too, and in your basement. It's insidious because most Americans don't think of them as dangerous, nor do they think of them as tools of State domination; otherwise they wouldn't...
Hard, Hard Questions
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Craig Russell 2003-04-21 16:00
'We got department stores and toilet paper . . . got fuel to burn, got roads to drive. Keep on rocking in the free world . . . .' ~ Neil Young It's easy for those of us who oppose the Government's immoral slaughtering of Iraqis to blame George W. Bush & Co. But perhaps this war is not as 'cut and dried' as we might want it to be. Each of us has to ask himself if he doesn't bear some...
Remember Waco
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Craig Russell 2003-04-15 16:00
'You could have arrested me jogging as I jogged up and down the road. You could have arrested me at Wal-Mart . . . this ain't America anymore when the ATF has that kind of power to come into anybody's home and kick doors down.' ~ David Koresh (1959-1993)
On Tim Robbins, the Hall of Fame, and First Amendment
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Craig Russell 2003-04-13 16:00
While they certainly use the word a lot, liberals just don't seem to really understand the meaning of 'freedom.'
E-Prime and Freedom
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Craig Russell 2003-07-23 16:00
To be or not to be ' that is the question. ~ Shakespeare, Hamlet Let's think for a moment about thought.

 

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