Plain finish, no varnish

By Sarason D. Liebler

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• Square Peg & Round Hole

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 29
  A metaphor is a pithy short phrase that allows one to quickly categorize a subject without providing a detailed framework of background information...
  

• Horror

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 03
  Two weeks ago Aurora, Colo., was the latest scene of societal horror. The mass shooting at the premier of the latest Batman movie took more than a ...
  

• Surprise — it’s a tax

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jul 03
  I usually start framing my columns for the following week at least 10 days before they are due for submission. The problem with that is evident, ...
  

• Austerity or Anger

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 22
  On Tuesday, June 5, 2012, voters in Wisconsin, San Jose and San Diego upset the status quo. In Wisconsin voters voted strongly to block the recall ...
  

• Only Troubling

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 05
  On Friday May 25, Jack Hayes, director of the National Weather Service, resigned after an audit of his fiefdom showed that the service had shifted ...
  

• X + Y = Z

  By Sarason D. Liebler - May 21
  Early on in grade school, we started with basic arithmetic. In my day we moved more slowly than they do today. Algebra was not taught until 7th or ...
  

• The Vietnam Project – Color me Orange

  By Sarason D. Liebler - May 12
  A couple of weeks ago Ashton Reynolds, a 15-year-old friend, grounds keeper, hunting rights manager and “jack of all trades” and I were chatting ...
  

• Corrosive labels

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 27
  Are you a liberal or a conservative? Most people when asked such a question reflexively fire back an answer. Despite the fervent and rapid ...
  

• As I was saying

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 13
  I commenced writing columns for the Republican Journal in 1998, shortly after the memorable ice storm. In due course, and until 2008, I wrote ...
  

• Missy Franklin

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 14
  Missy Franklin is a 17-year-old American swimming sensation who holds various world and Olympic medals and records, and from all accounts is a ...
  

• Picking a winner?

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jul 15
  The consensus of pundits is that it will be today’s undecided voters who pick the president in this fall's presidential election. They reason that ...
  

• Out of Step?

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 29
  June 18 was my 76th birthday. I graduated from high school in 1953. I graduated from college in 1961. I have been married to the same woman ...
  

• A sum up

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 13
  In a column like this one, the writer has to limit the scope of the chosen topic severely. Unless the topic is narrow the column becomes a ...
  

• Get rich quick

  By Sarason D. Liebler - May 31
  I was 29 and a Lieutenant when I resigned my commission from the U. S. Navy in 1965, not because I disliked the navy and not because I had remorse ...
  

• Voting for economic suicide

  By Sarason D. Liebler - May 17
  The French and the Greeks have spoken. They have voted for economic suicide and they will not be denied. Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Holland, Italy ...
  

• It is again time for a Public Works Administration

  By Sarason D. Liebler - May 03
  In the Great Depression of the 1930's, then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried a number of programs, using federal money, to get the nation ...
  

• Stepping on liberty in Liberty

  By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 20
  At the Liberty town meeting on March 31 certain citizens of Liberty stepped on the liberties of other citizens of Liberty, under the guise of ...