Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Forget the Facts, Print the Legend! Alberto Dominguez Back in the Old West, there was a shibboleth lovingly espoused by many frontier newspaper editors which went: If the facts get in the way of a legend, print the legend, anyway! So with that disclaimer, the story goes like this.
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Only Nine Little Words Note: Given the results of the recent presidential election in the United States, and the current threat from some quarters to drastically curtail the freedom of the press and the right of free speech, the following true story might be instructional. In 1734, in a
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Robert McNamara and the Vietnam War The late Robert McNamara’s best-selling book, In Retrospect, recently went into another printing, which has prompted us to republish our review of the book which originally ran soon after its initial release. The lessons of the Vietnam War are especially relevant now, as
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Ah, Persistence! Setting: A prestigious employment agency in Washington, D.C. Time: Sometime late in 1858. As scene opens, a tall, solemn-looking MAN enters and walks stiffly toward a RECEPTIONIST. His gaunt features and melancholy-looking eyes immediately make her wary. RECEPTIONIST: Our deliveries are made down the hall.
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Defining “Definitions” Exactly when it happened is still in dispute, but happen it did and thereafter liberals suddenly were regarded by some as only a few steps up from child-molesters. Yet given the definition in most dictionaries of a liberal, i.e., “generous …tolerant, broad-minded, favoring reform or progress…,” it
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit:http://thedarksideofthedream.com Reversing The Trend Over the past few years, migration from Mexico to the United States has been drastically reduced. Today, it sits at a net minus. The reasons are many, and include the still-struggling jobs market in the US, and the fact that despite its
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit:http://thedarksideofthedream.com A Sage for All Seasons In our January issue, we published a fine Guest Editorial by John Dallas Hicks about the importance of what John called “pathfinders.” Almost all of us can point to people who helped us somewhere along the way. Some served as
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit: http://thedarksideofthedream.com Political Hysteria (Some of the following courtesy of Griselda Nevarez) In the face of much frenzied bloviating in some political quarters in the United States about the apocalyptic future the country faces unless it can stem the “tidal wave of Mexican immigrants” into the
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