Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5

Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country

"...This is what the rule of law looks like:..."

July 12, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...fact – or, if you like, the possibility – that we live in a rogue nation...."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Obama's May 23 Speech

Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies

"...a speech billed as his most important foreign policy statement. It concluded with a resolve to close the prison..."

May 31, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Long Goodbye

In the first of four parting columns, Michael Ventura announces his decision to end his bieweekly column

"...Because, strange as it may seem, and no matter how personal it gets, the column hasn't been about..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

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To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life

"...last year, noteworthy articles have bounced around the Net implicating our government in 9/11. Some say the incompetence of..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Future Loose Amongst Us

Digitalized fabrication changes everything we know about work and government

"...if left alone with the motor-car would have been: What's so new about that? Whereupon he would have harnessed..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: What Are Human Beings For?

No I, only robot

"...That Times report also describes a Dutch electronics factory staffed..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

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What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

"...If you pay attention, the numbers make you sick. The numbers are about..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Second Story

Remembering the cowardice and dysfunction of the White House on 9 / 11

"...Today, Time, and Newsweek agree the first plane hit at 8:45am EST; The New York Times says 8:48; The..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

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It's a dangerous world, and some nights the most cruelly dangerous people may be you

"..."That," said Mayer, "is a terrific lead."..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

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If one is to vote for McCain-Palin, what, precisely, would one be voting for?

"...pissed-off Hillary Clinton supporter? I am. Do you think that Barack Obama's legislative record is pretty thin and may..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

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How far are you willing to go to make a picture?

"...were the early days of film? It was said that Henry Lehrman, while directing comedies on Mack Sennett's lot..."

March 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...The icon that Charles Chaplin created at the age of 24 may..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation

Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent

"...Four versions of one quotation:..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

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Woodstock was something new upon this earth

"...Rereading a beat-up paperback, the cover long since torn and taped, a..."

July 17, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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According to a 'USA Today' survey, 30% of all American youth hope to have careers in the arts. Who's been lying to these children?

"...p.1D). Young people, ages 12 to 17, were asked what career they were most seriously considering. The survey tallied..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: SXSW: Let Me Guess

Rio eyed Shreveport. Shreveport eyed Rio.

"..."Then do stay." With that, Rio opened a beer while Shreveport watched suspiciously. (Names..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Of Mayhem and Delight

The Keystone films, especially those of Charles Chaplin, reflected the present and heralded the future

"...people, a woman and a man, are in a state of delight. It dazzles you to see them. You..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...Groucho pursued his education almost 'til the end of sixth grade. He wrote..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

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A visit to Deadwood: The legends show you where to go. Once you get there, you do your best to find out why you came.

"...did an unruly Illinois farm boy, dismissed by his father early on as a "dreamer," who'd lead a violent..."

June 24, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.

"...15th birthday, in a town of some 25,000 called Waterville, Maine -- a tiny place, if you'd spent all..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2

Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws

"...this series, I examine the Constitution of the United States to demonstrate that it is no longer a functioning..."

May 3, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

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Two words have been missing in all the hubbub about the Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down laws against homosexual sodomy: Thank you.

"...34 years since Stonewall (for those who don't know what that is, do a Net search; it ain't Stonewall..."

July 11, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft

"...The shameful news of American torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and all its implications, has rightly..."

May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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The Flatlanders' collective voice of experience still dares the odds and rings true.

"...into a vending machine to take a closer look at a headline in the San Fernando Valley Daily News...."

July 26, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Night in Barcelona

The collision between human truths and political truths results in no truth

"...Place: Barcelona, Spain. Time: 1937. Dramatis Personae:..."

June 18, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

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Poetry is an act of faith.

"...The discovery that you love poetry is, at its root, the discovery..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench

The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up

"...Every generation is like a ship casting off under sealed orders,..."

April 4, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: It Came From the White House

Obama and a majority of Democratic legislators support the NDAA, allowing the arrest of U.S. citizens without a warrant

"...During the long congressional tussle over the National Defense Authorization Act, some legislators actually read the small..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

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Our country's newest immigrant generation is no longer learning that this nation will belong to them

"...It is no news to anyone that the fundamental nature of this country is changing in..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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