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    Vol. XII  Ed. 1     05/05/2009

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OPINION
 

The Heresy and The Faith

It’s YOUR money.

Some chant this phrase just around income-tax time to express their indignation at having to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s”, with Caesar in this instance being the United States government. The really motivated see themselves as Caesar as in “we the people” Caesar and the government a far, far distinct cousin like a fumbling Spartacus charged with shoring up the defenses of hearth and home. Still, there are others who chant the phrase as a sort of soliloquy despairing the seemingly inherent wastefulness of government spending, as in, “It’s YOUR money and you can do better with it yourself”.

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Opinion Archive

Terror! Terror! Terror!        Jan 2, 2007

Nature Attack! Nature Attack!   Jul 7, 2007

The Return of America   Aug 6, 2008

If God were a Piña Colda Dec 10, 2008

The Heresy and The Faith Mar 8, 2009



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The God Code

By Gregg Braden

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

 

The world is a mysterious place.

The world is a puzzling place.

Depending on your perspective in processing surrounding reality, you may or may not be capable of writing a book like THE GOD CODE. This book creates a puzzle and then resolutely goes about solving it. It's a trend.


Finding the mystery or puzzle is the key. Children are expert at this until constant admonitions to stop searching and “do as I say” kills the adventurous spirit.



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Bones In The Desert

by Jana Bomersbach

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

 

The major contribution Jana Bommersbach's BONES IN THE DESERT makes to any discussion about crime is how difficult it can be to define a crime when victim and victimizer are in a domestic relationship. In the death of sixty-nine year old Loretta Bowersock, it is obvious that she was the victim of various personal crimes long before she was finally murdered on December 14, 2004. Taw Benderly, the man who murdered her and nine days later killed himself, had been siphoning away Bowersock's assets for years. He appeared to be an asset sponge. For the nearly twenty years of Bowersock's and Benderly's relationship, Bowersock was the spigot and Benderly the sponge. That's the way it appears.  
 

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Into The Water 
by Diane Fanning

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

Diane Fanning's INTO THE WATER starts in June 2002 with Richard Marc Evonitz waking up from the dreamless world of a serial-rapist to discover that his latest victim has fled the confinement of his house and was probably on her way to the Richmond County, Virginia Sheriff's Department office around the corner.

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The First Patient 
by Michael Palmer

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes
 

Take the improbable and make it seem probable, the unbelievable and make it believable. THE FIRST PATIENT, as fiction, fails in both departments. Despite that, it is an entertaining novel.

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The Last Goodnights

By John West

Reviewed by Leslie Yau

 

Stick to The Issue”.  I have to remind myself often while writing this book review.

A father dying of cancer told his son, “. . .I have options about how and when my death will occur. But I’ll need you on board, to help me.” How is the son, a well educated lawyer, suppose to respond? John West nodded and said, “You got it.” So the dark, unbearable long journey started
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