Monthly Archives: May 2015

What Willie Halliburton Would Have Done

Posted on May 30, 2015 by M. Meo

Your Intrepid Reporter was, ah, arrested for the sixteenth time [that’s the best estimate I could get out of the court-appointed defense attorney after two weeks. Yes, I know it would have been a simple matter of discovery. He, um … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the New Century

Posted on May 24, 2015 by M. Meo

The proportion of children born out of wedlock in the United States is going down.

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Dear Colleagues

Posted on May 23, 2015 by M. Meo

To: Agenda Committee Eastside democratic Club meeting at Rosa’s Cafe, which goes by the name of Prescott Street Cafe From: M. Meo, elected secretary said Club in re: Next meeting of the self-styled Agenda Committee, but which really is the … Continue reading →

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The Paleoconservative Point of View

Posted on May 22, 2015 by M. Meo

Once upon a time, long ago, a speechwriter named Pat Buchanan, an ethnically Irish Roman Catholic and proud of it — as opposed to JFK, who was about as sincere a Catholic as Adolf Hitler was — ran for President. … Continue reading →

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FWIW: U.N. Condemns U.S. Violations of Human Rights

Posted on May 21, 2015 by M. Meo

No one could believe, now some 70 years after it was founded, that the United Nations’ condemnation of United States’ violations of human rights will have much of an impact. Nonetheless, the fact is the U.N. just condemned the way … Continue reading →

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Good News

Posted on May 18, 2015 by M. Meo

Greg Boertje-Obed, to whom Your Intrepid Reporter wrote while he was incarcerated, thanking him for his principled suffering the imposition of prison time for his opposition to nuclear weapons, has been released.

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A Simple Example

Posted on May 17, 2015 by M. Meo

The former Candidate for President of the United States of the Green Party of the United States, Representative from Georgia Cynthia Mckinney, brings the present example of the differing treatment of white and black citizens to our attention. Hey, the … Continue reading →

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This Is What Bush Should Have Done

Posted on May 16, 2015 by M. Meo

I see from the London conservative newspaper The Telegraph, that one Khalid al-Fawwaz has been convicted after a jury trial in New York City, of providing substantial material support for the al-Quaeda network that destroyed the World Trade Center and … Continue reading →

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Dear Congressman Blumenauer

Posted on May 15, 2015 by M. Meo

I read the side-by-side (or perhaps, more accurately, the one-behind-the-other) interviews of your Self and Congressman DeFazio [hey — an Italian name, ya think?] in this week’s tabloid Willamette Week [the pejorative noun was intentional: I have many and manifest … Continue reading →

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Who’s the Jew? Who’s the Nazi?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by M. Meo

Gregory Fegel was a witness to my arrest at the Occupy Mount Tabor demo. Gregory Fegel testified in my defense at my jury trial — which I lost — for failing to respond to a lawful order by a park … Continue reading →

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