March, 2009

Magellan

Where exploration may take us.



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Saturation

A new poem by the CommonSense 2 poetry editor.



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Chapters 6 thru 10

Chapter 6
Darnell’s life was a strange one for a while. That was pretty long ago now. He made himself lunch a few weeks later and went back to fixing people’s places….



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What Tom Herman Should Know

Such was the case when Ron recently dropped into a conversation that the Berks County Democratic Committee had an anti-privatization resolution on its records as official policy. Sure, Ron, I thought to myself, and I’m the Queen of England.

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Freeing Up Resources… for More War

And so, a colossal and fateful blunder, made by a very smart leader, arguably our best and brightest, is careening forward with the help of silence that defers all too readily to power. This is how the war in Vietnam escalated, while individuals and groups muted their voices. Many people will pay with their lives.



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Democrats Don’t Privatize

Should Obama or any elected Democrat even consider privatization of Social Security, we need to raise hell within our party and stand up for our core beliefs.



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Lincoln As the Great Emancipator

It is from the confusion of these conceptions that the ghost of Lincoln himself emerges in his writings no less than in his actions to set the record straight.



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How George W. Bush Won Me An Oscar

The one thing he did right by me…



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Chapters 11 thru 15

Chapter 11
It was 1979 when the quarry collapsed. Leesa and Darnell had been together four years. There were no children. In fact Leesa had been a bit older than Darnell. In 1979 Darnell was 24. When Leesa passed over she was 33…



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Meet Karen Feridun

Well, the Obama campaign went into all these towns, large and small. Wherever they went they dominated.

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