Tag: legacy

Countdown's Special Comment: Clinton is Unforgiveable
ecthompsonmd May 23, 2008

There are times when Keith Olbermann’s Special Comments are over the top. Fortunately, those times are few and far between. Most of the time, like tonight, they are exactly right. He underscores the idea that there are places that we should never go in public, and mentioning assassination is one of those places. I have no idea why Senator Hillary Clinton would go down this road and lie about Bosnia. From the Special Comment: We cannot forgive you this — not because it is crass and low and unfeeling and brutal. This is unforgivable, because this nation’s deepest shame, its most

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Note from Gordon
ecthompsonmd May 23, 2008

Hiya Doctor. Just a heads up that we’ve got two big local issues happening. For all the bloggy good information on the trial and conviction of former Sheriff Bobby Medford, check out Cecil Bothwell’s Blog: http://bothwellsblog.wordpress.com/ For the skinny on the suspicious land deal resulting in selling part of our marquis public commons to a legacy developer for condos, you can read Scrutiny Hooligans: http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us Or just check out my Letter to the editor in today’s Citizen-Times: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880522078

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Race Of MLK Sculptor
ecthompsonmd September 25, 2007

It seems that the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. is often surrounded by trouble and controversy. For years we’ve had to endure the King family seemingly caring more about copyright infringement than about making the do-nothing King Center in Atlanta a genuine agency of social change. Now we have a fight over who should serve as the sculptor of the King statue planned for the under-construction King National Memorial in Washington. The King Memorial will be located between the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial. A Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, was picked by the memorial foundation instead of a black

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