by Arthur Schaper | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
http://www. youtube. com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=xxLNKnLaDG8For any taxpayer who manifests even a bare interest in how his or her federal taxdollars are spent, no admission could be more disturbing or frustrating the Waxman’s fluster comment to...
by Arthur Schaper | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thou canst not then be false to any man.(Hamlet, I, iii)What an example of pressed and hurrried fatherly advice, yet the chain of maxims and epithets does more to expose the folly and naivete of an old courtier mimicking the plain platitudes of royal court life rather...
by Arthur Schaper | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Paraphrasing Alphaville’s hit “Forever Young”, Redondo Beach Unified Superintendent StevenKeller remarked about his district’s looming budget concerns: “We always planfor the worst and hope for the best.” Ouryouth should not be...
by Arthur Schaper | May 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Anywhere Out of the World This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. It always seems to me that I...
by Arthur Schaper | Apr 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Speech from Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ I am tired of populists who look to ensnare the souls and minds of human beings, as if appealing to their sense of self tied in with their meaning in a group will liberate man from his present...
by Arthur Schaper | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Russian-Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky implored his fellow Israelis to look beyond their domestic differences and remember their common heritage and dedication to each other and the Jewish state. They may not agree with their different views on foreign and domestic...
