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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Torquemada And The Spanish Inquisition By Dr. Lorin Swinehart On the morning of February 6, 1481, six prominent citizens of the Spanish city of Sevilla, Jewish converts to Christianity, were marched through town barefoot, each carrying an unlighted candle. After attending Mass and a sermon, they were burned at the stake. A few days
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Guadalajara’s Parque Revolución For those who have sated themselves on Guadalajara’s high profile tourist attractions, the neighborhoods of the city’s midtown offer a change-of-pace urban experience that invite the visitor to return again and again. From working-class neighborhoods on its eastern edge that offer up colorful mom-and-pop shops, newsstands,
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Child’s Play By Dorothy Blanchard If he could have seen what lay ahead that day, Juan, a pickpocket, would have remained in the city. Instead, he hitched a ride to the Mexican pueblo where tourists flocked to the tianguis, the open market. Passing a fruit stand where an old man patiently piled oranges
Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com DO Go Gentle… My father was a gentle man. He wasn’t meek. He had strong opinions, but he was gentle in the way he expressed them. When I was in college, I remember coming home full of myself, sure that I understood the world better than most people,
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Mexicans Can Fix Almost Anything! By Kathy Koches I love Mexico and the Mexican people. Besides being kind, warm and generous, they possess the most amazing ability. They can fix almost anything! The other day I was sitting at my vanity table in the bathroom, which of course has tile floors. As I picked
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New Revolution In Mexico By Rosemary Grayson Iconic brothers, Romulus and Remus mythically founded Rome, whose culture revolutionized the world. Iconic brothers, Isaac and Esteban Hernandez are now to found a hitherto overlooked culture, to revolutionize Mexico. For Isaac Hernandez, at 25 years old, has risen out of the dust to be one of
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Apprenticeship of Stefan Varek By Robert Bruce DrynanBook Review by Mark Sconce Robert Bruce Drynan I came favorably disposed to the Apprenticeship of Stefan Varek having met Marine Master Sergeant Varek in several other Drynan tales where he often appears in time to save an otherwise hopeless situation. Varek “…charged out of his hiding
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Irises Vincent is framed by Paul, his luminous blue glows from the wall of a millionaire’s dying dream shaped like a Roman villa from Herculaneum perched on the cliffs above Malibu. Madness extols itself in perfect form – there is no vision more extreme, complete than these last lingering flowers of summer’s heat
Walking the Dog In Memory of Duke By Robert Jaeger The rope is worn smooth. The frayed loop at the end chafes Though my fingers grip the knot As this tenacious tan dog Drags me around our small town. Long lead or short makes no difference. He is always at the bitter end, Straining
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