Month: May 2007
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Letter to the Editor: Hail the printed word — online
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Robert Kelly-Goss’ recent column, where he argues the superiority of printed texts over their electronic counterparts, reminded me of a quote from author Douglas Adams: “Anything that is in the world when…
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Letter to the Editor: Electoral College Unfair to Larger States
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: North Dakota gets three Electoral College votes for its 642,200 residents, one vote for every 214,067 people. New York gets 33 votes for its 19,190,115 residents, one vote for every 581,519 people.…
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Review of Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason”
“I have always regarded Thomas Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic.” – Thomas Edison The burial location ofThomas Paine inNew Rochelle, New York In Catholicism, when a child reaches seven years of age, they become responsible for their moral actions, capable of…