Tag Archives: nation

Healthcare initiative having trouble with liftoff [July 2009 / CCT]

It is indeed strange when you have to go back 40 years to get back to the future. When men bouncing on the moon looks quaint. Fact is, that first moon trip is more ancient to kids today than the Model T Ford was to baby boomers when we were young. Some pundits are calling …

November 30, 2011 – 6:07 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

[ op ed ] Occupy oustings: the emperor’s naked power

As Occupiers seem to know, the crackdown– tents torn down, books and personal belongings confiscated, the arrests, the cowardly pepper spraying at UC Davis—none of this is a defeat. On the contrary, forcing the powers-that-be to show their hand is the biggest victory so far. Almost certainly the 1% didn’t want to resort to police …

November 29, 2011 – 1:00 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

[op-ed ] What’s missing is clarity, not civility

“The problem is with a Congress which can’t compromise for the good of the country.” I heard somebody say this in an NPR interview the other day in the aftermath of the budget crisis in Washington. The next day at a gathering a friend announced with a twinkle that he was thinking of starting a …

August 24, 2011 – 2:40 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

[op-ed] Resolving our Afghanistan contradiction

The Academy Award- nominated documentary “Restrepo” is on the frontline of our thinking about Afghanistan. There will be a showing of it on June 20 at 7:30 at WHAT theater as part of Wellfleet Library’s “One Book, One Community” series. I spent some time looking up reviews online and was surprised to discover that there …

June 16, 2011 – 10:18 am | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

[ op-ed ] An exceptionally naïve and dangerous concept

To us revolution is a spectator sport. We look on with curiosity as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya evolve, revolve, transform. Their struggles get our attention, maybe even our admiration. But they don’t apply to us. We are unchanging, static. We had our revolution a long time ago and that was that. Having gotten out from …

March 22, 2011 – 2:46 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)