"Unity Must Be Ultimate Goal of This Election" by W J O'Reilly
Democrats and Republicans are at each other's throats, but we need to swallow pride if the other party's candidate wins, and re-unify as a nation to meet the formidable and unseen challenges of the...
View ArticleFathers, Look for the Good
"Fathers, today, look for what's good in our relationships with others and not at what's missing. It'll make for a much happier day." --WJO'R
View ArticleBrooklyn is Back with a Vengeance
"Hats Off to Brooklyn! As plans proceed for the unveiling of the Brooklyn Nets NBA team in its new quarters in downtown Brooklyn, this is a symbolic end to the cultural and spiritual depression which...
View ArticleRodney King, Honored
Rodney King, known for the simple and immortal plea, "Why Can't We All Just Get Long?" has died. He is an example of a person who made a humane contribution to the quality of people's lives, despite...
View ArticleNRA Efforts to Pin "Fast and Furious" on Obama Will Weaken Its Second...
The general public is at this point only marginally aware of all this Fast and Furious talk, though attorney general Eric Holder's citing for contempt has succeeded in garnering a bit more attention....
View ArticleNRA Foils Own Agenda Over "Fast and Furious" Fallout
The general public is at this point only marginally aware of all this Fast and Furious talk, though attorney general Eric Holder's citing for contempt has succeeded in garnering a bit more attention....
View ArticleFast and Furious: An Attempt to Undermine Obama's Bin Laden Capture, Derail...
The drama surrounding Fast and Furious may be a calculated effort by right wing radicals to erase Obama's success as Commander in Chief in the apprehension of Osama Bin Laden. A black non-veteran law...
View ArticleJust "Get" Chris Rock's Unpatriotic Tweet, For What You Resist Will Only Persist
Chris Rock tweeted yesterday about the White Man's Independence Day and remarked about bitter residue over slavery in our nation's past. Many have responded on either side of the issue that one would...
View ArticleApplied Buddhism: Just "Get" Chris Rock's Unpatriotic Tweet; Don't Resist...
Applied Buddhism: Just "Get" Chris Rock's Unpatriotic Tweet; Don't Resist It-What You Resist Persists! www.facebook.com/env123
View ArticleWomen's IQ Now Higher Than Men's for First Time in 100 Years :W J O'Reilly
Picture: Lady Gaga at Harvard Attribute it to the multi-tasking of mothering and work, but the latest IQ scores show that women have blown past men for the first time since the standard has been kept...
View Article"Citizen Journalism" Now a Major Force in News Gathering and Sharing
It's no news to IReport for CNN, but the Pew Center reports that citizen videos on the web comprise nearly a third of the most watched news reporting nowadays. "What's most amazing is we're just at the...
View ArticlePenn State Sanctions: Too Little, Much Too Late----What About Prevention?
Driving through Manhattan this past weekend, I noticed a high presence of security guards and police near the site of Ground Zero. I mumbled something to myself about "yeah, 11 years too late." With...
View ArticleDo the Olympic Games Feed an Unhealthy Nationalism....Even Chauvanism?
Chauvanism: an exaggerated, bellicose patriotism and a belief in national superiority and glory. I love the spectacle of the big sporting event as much or more than the next guy, and all this High Def...
View Article"Silly Rabbits, Lance Armstrong Is Still Way Ahead of You" ---W J O'Reilly
by W J O'ReillyAs we all wait with bated breath for the Oprah interview of Lance to confirm what we all know by now, don't think for a minute that he...
View Article"Silly Rabbit, Lance Armstrong is Way Ahead of You On This....and Has No...
by W J O'Reilly As we all wait with bated breath for the Oprah interview of Lance to confirm what we all know by now, don't think for a minute that he is not fully in control of the outcome of these...
View ArticleLance Knows Exactly How All This Will Play Out, As Usual
by W J O'Reilly As we all wait with bated breath for the Oprah interview of Lance to confirm what we all know by now, don't think for a minute that he is not fully in control of the outcome of these...
View ArticleThe Ends Justify the Means--Isn't That How We Live? Why Castigate Armstrong?
by W J O'Reilly It's a dirty world, getting dirtier. Get ahead, get rich, get laid--and lie, learn how to lie with a straight face, better than anyone has ever lied before. That's how to get ahead in...
View ArticleAn A-Rod 211 Game Suspension Hurts MLB More than Rodriguez the Man
Suspending A-Rod for 211 games will hurt Major League Baseball more than it will Rodriguez, thus expect some last-minute finagling to bring the suspension down to a more manageable 50-100. That Alex...
View ArticleRodriguez, Weiner, Spitzer---Have They No Shame? Apparently Not!
Rodriguez, Weiner, Spitzer--Disgraced Celebrities Struggling to Stay in the Limelight There was a time when people who shamed themselves before the public would slink into the woodwork and spare us...
View ArticleHank Williams' Words, As True Today Amidst the World's Sadness
Hank Williams' "Lonesome I Could Cry" dedicated to the sadness in Egypt, North Korea, Iraq and Every Town around the world.
View ArticleAaron Hernandez Pleads Not Guilty and May Well Beat This Rap
I tuned in the live streaming of Aaron Hernandez arraignment today with the intention of seeing him and his team floundering in defeat. This is not what I saw. His team's demeanor---and don't forget...
View ArticleThe NYC Marathon: Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst
The running of the NYC Marathon this weekend will be cause for appreciation of social events like this that we sometime take for granted. It's been two years since the last running, due to Sandy last...
View ArticleUkraine Spring---A Perfect Storm of Freedom and Tyranny ---by W J O'Reilly
by W J O'Reilly The power politics of Vladimir Putin conjoined with the thirst for true democracy in the Ukraine has created a Perfect Storm. Call it the Ukraine Spring, if you prefer that metaphor....
View ArticleIt's Been A While, But It May Be Time to Resume Contributing to iReport
While Andy Warhol would have called it our "15 minutes of fame," posting one's story on iReport is akin to a journalistic selfie. It may be time to begin again. I posted my first story here back in...
View ArticleI Hate This Monkey Movie--Here's Why You Should Too
I loved the last Planet of the Apes movie--not the current one--the 2011 one that had the apes running amok in San Francisco and finally fleeing via the Golden Gate into the Muir Woods. That one was...
View ArticleI Hate This Monkey Movie, and Here's Why You Should, Too
I loved the last Planet of the Apes movie--not the current one--the 2011 one that had the apes running amok in San Francisco and finally fleeing via the Golden Gate into the Muir Woods. That one was...
View ArticleThe Un-Demonization of Cuba--Communists Aren't the Boogeyman---to Some, Not...
With today's release of an American prisoner, Cuba has entered into an apparent reconciliation with the United States. At long last, the two countries will normalize relations for the first time since...
View ArticleDeflategate Will Boost Ratings and Ultimately Show that Integrity Determines...
Why all the uproar about the Patriots alleged deflating of footballs? I know the haters love to point to the Pats stretching of the rules to suit themselves--but honestly, isn't football about doing...
View ArticleMy Beloved Patriots Deflated the Balls and Will Lose the Superbowl
Why all the uproar about the Patriots alleged deflating of footballs? I know the haters love to point to the Pats stretching of the rules to suit themselves--but honestly, isn't football about doing...
View ArticleLondon Exists in "The Dynamic Present"
To me, London and England generally are the template that we are following here in the States. when I visited the city a decade ago to visit my step daughter at Brandeis doing her junior year abroad I...
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