tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76725732704009813482011-04-21T18:50:28.844-05:00My personal place to post my opinions and works-in-progress.DCSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7672573270400981348.post-88003816987672172402009-04-14T10:31:00.002-05:002009-04-14T11:13:07.779-05:00

Navy Seal snipers ended the hostage crisis on Easter with three simultaneous and well aimed shots into the heads of the three pirates holding an American ship captain hostage in an enclosed lifeboat. The NYT reported earlier that the navy had asked permission more than once to use deadly force to free the captain, and 44 had at last relented, giving approval if the life of the captain was in

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What is the Charter Oak? And why should anyone care about it? It's the official tree of the State of Connecticut, my birthplace, for one thing. The tree itself went down in a fierce storm in 1856 on an estate in Hartford where it had stood for more than 200 years. I have a small pin with an acorn carved from the wood of the Oak. My namesake has his name on the original Charter of the Colony of

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