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A long time ago, my sophomore English teacher, Father William Campbell, saw something in my writing and predicted that I would someday become a newspaper columnist. He suggested the perfect title for my column--"Leaves of the Palm." Now that I have a little extra time on my hands I've decided to put Father Campbell's prediction to the test. I'm going to start using this blog site not just to reprint opinion pieces I've published elsewhere but to try to get more of my ideas and opinions out there. Feedback is welcome. To find out more about me, please check out my Web site: www.EdwardFPalm.com (Click on any of the photos below for an enlarged view.)

Thursday, April 3, 2025

My thought for today —S/f, EFP

 T. S. Eliot didn’t know the half of it. April is indeed the cruelest month, breeding divisive tariffs out of a deranged mind. —S/f, EFP

Sunday, March 30, 2025

My current News & Advance and Kitsap Sun columns --S/f, EFP



 

        [I was able to add this afterword to the Kitsap Sun version of the column.}

An Afterword. Last week, on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, I heard Border Czar Tom Homan grilled about whether those recently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador received any due process. He dismissed the concern by resorting to inflammatory whataboutism. “All those young women who were raped and murdered by TDA,” he asked, “where was their due process?” The thing is, two wrongs don’t make a right. Granted, a few undocumented immigrants have committed heinous crimes. But presuming all undocumented aliens to be capable of such crimes, and preemptively deporting them, does not balance the scales of justice.

            Also, on that same Sunday talk show, I heard Bernie Sanders remind viewers of the fly in Trump’s mass-deportation operation: “I’ve got news for you. Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to pick the crops in California or work in the meat-packing plants.”

            A friend said he would “pay good money to see that.” So would I.


Sunday, March 23, 2025

My thought for today

 You may have heard that London's Heathrow Airport has no electricity. That means no air traffic control and no runway lights. So I suppose pilots wanting to take off from or land at Heathrow have to ask themselves, "Do I feel lucky?" --S/f, EFP

My current News & Advance column

 




Sunday, March 16, 2025

My current Kitsap Sun and News & Advance column

 I'm returning to those not-so-thrilling days of yesteryear. Truth be told, I'm not held in such high esteem at the Naval Academy. I wonder why. It may have had something to do with the article I mention below as well as one I published in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 1996--"Putting the Naval Academy on Course," 27 May 1996. (I'm using the same topic this week for the News & Advance.) --S/f, EFP

P.S. My apologies for the typo in the 7th paragraph. It was a Freudian slip. I always thought the faculty at the Naval Academy is faulty. --S/f, EFP