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Nihil Obstat: June 2013
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. Can Congress be Fixed? With cost of membership at record highs, Congress hits record lows. On Sunday, host Bob Schieffer let loose. On our “do-nothing” Congress, lamenting how much things have changed since he first came to Washington four decades ago:. Something — a member of Congress. But when I came to Washington, most members wanted to. Something. When did that go out of style? Drawn from an elite segment of U.S. society. This much is clear: While most professionals get bette...
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Nihil Obstat: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. How one-size-fits-all drug treatment leaves minorities in a lurch. An abridged version of this article appeared in The Philadelphia Tribune. On March 2, 2014. F you're looking for the nucleus of the drug and alcohol recovery community in Philadelphia, a good place to start would be the roughly one-mile stretch between York Street and Allegheny Avenue under the El in North Philadelphia. Public welfare cuts enacted by Governor Tom Corbett in 2012 have strained county resources.
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Nihil Obstat: September 2013
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Sunday, September 29, 2013. Door, South Philadelphia, 2013 (shot with iPhone 5). Monday, September 16, 2013. Point Breeze, South Philadelphia, 2013. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. Memorial Wall, Villa Grimaldi, Santiago. F trees had the capacity for language, the towering Ombu off Avda Jose Arrieta on the outskirts of the Chilean capital of Santiago would tell a tale of brutality and redemption, of nature’s capacity to forget, and man’s determination to remember. Today Chileans are gathering together to ...
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Nihil Obstat: July 2013
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Friday, July 26, 2013. CDs, DVDs" North Philadelphia, July 2013. Thursday, July 11, 2013. The taint on the Obama legacy. Said the involuntary feedings violate the “core ethical values of the medical profession.” Three bioethicists writing this month in. The New England Journal of Medicine. Go even further, equating forced nourishment to “aggravated assault.”. Which was dictated over the phone to his attorney:. Is that something that our founders foresaw? Our sense of justice is stronger than that....
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Nihil Obstat: August 2013
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Friday, August 16, 2013. FDR Park, South Philadelphia 2007-2010. Friday, August 2, 2013. How bank policy alienates poor consumers. Story on the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times. Details the precarious situation many low-income and working-class consumers are finding themselves in when they go to the bank in the hopes of opening a new account. While comprehensive in scope, the Times. Story was based on surveys of consumers in just five states, and Pennsylvania wasn’t one of them. So I re...Indeed,...
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Nihil Obstat: October 2013
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Friday, October 18, 2013. Why no one benefits from a GOP civil war. Ixteen days after shutting down the government and less than 48 hours before pushing America into default, Republicans in Congress have finally abandoned their fruitless effort to preempt the lawful implementation of the Affordable Care Act and allowed the government to re-open and pay its bills. The Republican Party is now an organization in disarray. Over the past several weeks the cracks that had been growing between the GOP estab...
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Nihil Obstat: November 2013
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Friday, November 15, 2013. NoLibs Wall, November 2013. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. The French steal our laptops, and other insights from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ormer Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke to a packed crowd last night at the Kimmel Center as part of a special Veteran's Day installment of the Philadelphia Speaker Series. After warming up with a few jokes – have you heard the one about Nixon and the Pope? Was "greatly underestimated," and sealed his legacy as a one-term pre...
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Nihil Obstat: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Deadwood, South Dakota. Thousand yard stare;. Casino, Deadwood, S.D. (2011). Monday, December 9, 2013. Big Bird and Friend. Central Park, NYC December 7, 2013. Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Street Art, Theater District, Boston, November 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Words and Images By Christopher Moraff. Subscribe in a reader. One From The Stacks. Giving my books a second life on the Web. Tales of caution from the 24-hour news cycle. I love that photo. Deadwood, South Dakota.
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Nihil Obstat: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. One from the Stacks: The Journals of André Gide (1889-1949). André Gide, Volume I (1889-1924). Stay tuned for more Gide to follow in future installments. André Gide Volume I. Published by Vintage Books, New York (1956). Originally published in four volumes by Alfred A. Knopf,. 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951. Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Purchase date/price: 2002, Library sale (unknown) $2.00. Condition: good (several notations in red pencil on title page). André Gide Volume II. All 50...
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Nihil Obstat: For the love of books
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Monday, January 23, 2012. For the love of books. One from the stacks. Giving my books a second life on the Web. Writing for a living (or more accurately, assuming anyone cares. I've since replaced some of the books I sold (a collection of Paul Bowles' short stories comes to mind). I wouldn't sell my books now. Mostly because I no longer see them as individual items, commodities if you will, but as something much more personal: A library is an intellectual self-portrait of he who created it. It's high tim...
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