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Are we ugly Americans?

Unfortunately this is a common vision about us overseas. My ex-girlfriend’s father served in Hitler’s army during World War II. He told me that “I was hoping to get captured by Americans rather than Russian.” Those days even our enemy respected us for being good people. Today this vision has been reversed. New Year’s Day […]

January 18, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

Kim brothers kept out of view

The issue: Or they could live as ordinary citizens on a collective farm In the Stalinist days of the old Soviet Union, after which North Korea has studiously modeled itself, superseded rivals for leadership abruptly disappeared from public life. Their faces were expunged from Kremlin group photos. Their names were deleted from newspaper and magazine archives […]

January 18, 2013 | Posted in Our View | Tagged ,

Islamology 101 — few in U.S. would pass course

By Clifford D. May Google “Islamist” and you’ll get more than 24 million hits. Google “jihadist” and you’ll get millions more. Yet I bet the average American could not tell you what it is that Islamists and jihadists believe. And those at the highest levels of the U.S. government refuse to do so. Why? John […]

January 18, 2013 | Posted in Columns | Tagged ,

Tuleyome supports Measure I

Tuleyome supports the regional Woodland Davis Clean Water Project to develop and provide a reliable source of surface water to the city of Davis, the university, and the city of Woodland. “Supplying our city’s water by mining groundwater is not sustainable or environmentally responsible. It is bad for the residents, can result in permanent damage […]

January 18, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

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