By Glenn Greenwald: In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration’s “presidential assassination program,” whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they’re involved in Terrorism.To read the rest of the story, click here.

Cinquain
New Moon
Love, Lost
Twisting, Sinking, Falling
Who’s Love Will Win
Jacob
Haiku
A faded old book,
Open your pages to me
that I may travel.
November 19, 2009: I wrote these to illustrate to a class I was teaching how easy it was to write these poems. Since I expected them to do it in class, I thought I should write one. I had just seen New Moon (Twilight trilogy) movie.

Mercy is the ability to show kindness or compassion to someone else-when they have done something wrong.
Mercy is real. I have shown mercy and received it from others I have even shown mercy to animals. A good example is once I was driving after dark and hit a deer. I stopped to check on the condition of the deer as it had fallen on the side of the road. I could tell that it’s jaw was broken and knew at once that it would have a difficult time surviving due …

Local government is vital to preserving our freedoms. Removing the decision making process from our community decreases the willingness to help one another and even solve our own problems. We have stopped trying to solve our own problems. We have faded into the background as a non-voting, voiceless community.

Planting and growing a garden is a basic tenet of self-reliance, as the Founding Fathers knew. “During the whole of the American Enlightenment,” Henry Steel Commager notes, “every President was a countryman.” (The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and American Realized the Enlightenment, p 243.)
We must have hard work so that we can create order and virtue. Hesiod says, “The immortals decried that man must sweat to attain virtue, since for mortals, order is best, disorder is worst.” Those who work to “fill their barns” know this freedom better …