Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.. words to dehumanize and demonize.

CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the patterns of stars with names of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin; other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own, with all their diverse moons, bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces; comets with their streaming tails bent by pressure from our sun; the skyscape of our Milky Way holding in its shimmering disc an infinity of suns (or say a thousand billion); knowing there are holes of darkness gulping mass and even light, knowing that this galaxy of ours is one of multitudes in what we call the heavens, it troubles me. It troubles me. -President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest, about the Revolutionary War).

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Show.

There was false propaganda by the administration that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.