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1. 27 minutes ago on Ted Rall

   A book titled Into That Darkness supports what you say about people knowing what was happening and provides some insight into how their minds worked to excuse or deny. A very disturbing read.

2. 32 minutes ago on Ted Rall

   One of the best comments I’ve ever read on this site!

3. 42 minutes ago on Henry Payne

   My grampa bought war bonds for us. I was able to attend a state university for four years using them. Went to grad school on an assistanceship and a student loan part of which was forgiven each year I taught. Don’t know how kids do it today but I guess I’ll find out. Grandson starts at Cal Poly this fall.

4. about 1 hour ago on Pedro X. Molina

   There is a terrific book out there that will help anyone who wants to gain some insight into the plight of the Palestinians and the origins of the current conflict. It’s The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan. It reads like a novel but it’s a well researched true story.

5. 6 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   Guess that says something about the quality of students, from protesting a needless war to running naked across campus. You also missed the Airplane doing White Rabbit at Woodstock. Sad.

6. 6 days ago on Scott Stantis

   I believe it’s partly because it is rather traditional Arab head gear in some areas that identified a tribe and was also handy for covering mouth and nose during dust storms.

7. 6 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   It seems that young people have actually learned a few things about today’s world and decided to take action. Nothing could be more frightening to the one percenters and the politicians who protect them then a group of young people peacefully protesting injustice. Such protests in the past resulted in such terrible things as the expansion of rights for women and African Americans, ending the Vietnam War, ending Apartheid in South Africa. Who knows what terrible things might happen if today’s protests begin attracting a larger following. Send in the police and nip these things in the bud before some constructive changes are made.

8. 10 days ago on Bill Bramhall

   Who was it that settled the United States … Thousands from all over the world. How many of those “illegals” will work their tails off to see that their kids get an education and maybe go to college and become tomorrow’s doctors, lawyers, business leaders, engineers and scientists just like generations of immigrants before them.

9. 13 days ago on Rob Rogers

   Having been a part of some of the Civil Rights and Viet Nam protests I’ve been looking at videos of these protests and I’m reminded of a scene in the first Crocodile Dundee movie where a street thug tries to rob him and says he has a knife and exhibits a pocket knife. Dundee replies you call that a knife as he pulls out a Bowie knife with a foot long blade. So you call that a protest? It will be a protest when you have ten thousand students blocking the administration building and two hundred occupying the President’s office. I admire the students’ desire for justice and peace that both Jewish and Palestinian students realize that they have the same goal, living peacefully together.

10. 13 days ago on Rob Rogers

    If ifs and buts were candy and nuts oh what a beautiful Christmas we’d have.