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Cry, the Beloved Country…

“High court rules suspect must invoke own silence right. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a criminal suspect must explicitly invoke the right to remain silent during a police interrogation, a decision that dissenting liberal justices said turns the protections of a Miranda warning “upside down.’’ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/02/high_court_rules_suspect_must_invoke_own_silence_right/

On Faith and Hope, by Gordon Jack Schultz

Having faith in a person, a spouse perhaps, doesn’t require any specific action from the one in whom you have faith. It is a matter of sheer trust. It is open-ended: My faith in Christine is based not on facts I know about her (though they certainly enter in), but on my relationship with her, my experience with her. Faith in her doesn’t require her to do something, as in “I have faith that she will win the race.” It just requires her to be her. Faith in a person is trusting the character of the person. And that comes from relationship–shared experience over time.

Greatest Cartoonist of All Time!

Many of you already know and love John X. Ambrosavage. In the 1990s, he was named “America’s Best Loved Cartoonist” and “An American Treasure” by persons who ought to know. Time has only sharpened his humor. He has built up a website loaded with years (decades) of furious hahas. East PortlandBlog is an ardent Ambro …