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Please browse some of the Yes…But! columns I have written for The Belleville Intelligencer, a southern Ontario daily newspaper. Comments and inquiries are welcome.

Yes…But!

Year 9-6 Adolf Hitler, on September 23 1933, shortly after he became Germany’s “Fuehrer”, attired in brightly polished knee boots and wearing an immaculate military uniform with a swastika armband, stepped on a small hill, scooped up some dirt, and … Continue reading

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Year 9-5 Stephen Harper doesn’t get it. He thinks it’s business as usual. He doesn’t understand that we live in new times that yesterday’s answers don’t work anymore. His loyal lackey Jim Flaherty is also of the old school: they … Continue reading

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Year 9-4 Last week in the magnificent new Guthrie Theatre complex in downtown Minneapolis, on the shore of the Mississippi, I saw ”Shadowlands,” a play based on the life of C.S. Lewis, the well-known author of the Narnia Series, and, … Continue reading

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Year 9-3 “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s how Michael Pollan starts his book, “In Defense of Food.” He continues, “That’s more or less, the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we … Continue reading

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Year 9-2 We all have seen these tremendously long trains stacked with doubled up containers, most of them originating in China. That sort of transport may soon stop. It’s the money matter that may halt this. The growing financial crisis … Continue reading

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Year 9-1 “Christian Church lives by God’s word, even on homosexuality”. I challenge the accuracy of last week’s headline, because God’s Word is bigger than the Scriptures alone. For the last 23 years I have written in my almost undecipherable … Continue reading

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