Colman McCarthy

Journalist, peace teacher, lover of long-shots.

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One of our best! So thrilled to have this national treasure living here in Ward 3! Invaluable member of our community.

[Mo Rocca @MoRocca]

Web extra: Colman McCarthy on @RepBarbaraLee

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@MoRocca @AmolProducer Our whole family was much moved, Mo. Large thanks to you and your team for such a graceful piece.
~Jimmy (on behalf of the McCarthys).

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Coming up on #SundayMorning

@ColmanMcCarthy, a teacher of peace, sat down with @MoRocca for an unforgettable conversation about spreading the philosophy of non-violence https://t.co/xQY4yzDWwa

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One of our quiet greats: RT @CBSSunday: Coming up on #SundayMorning

@ColmanMcCarthy is a true original: A golfer, former monk, WashPost columnist, a teacher of peace who spreads the philosophy of non-violence https://t.co/k91BOFc4WX

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Memorial Day: In the sanctimony of their speeches today hailing the nation's past warriors not one general or pol has come close to citing one ever-darkening fact: the longest war in US history rolls along in Afghanistan.

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Bush 41 says he no regrets. Really? No regrets about invading Iraq in 1991 where over a million people have been killed, wounded or displaced, and mega-billions of U.S. dollars have been squandered. Plus no end in sight.

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Memorial Day: let's remember the deranged pols who sent the young to die in our endless wars. Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan,
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump. And their vile living enablers: Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Albright, Rice, Clinton, Kelly. Let them NOT rest in peace.

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My favorite St. Francis quote: "Start by doing what's necessary.Then do what's possible. And suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Anyone disagree with that?

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Let's remember Gandhi today, the 70th anniversary of his death. His goal was not to bring the British to their knees but to their senses. He succeeded.

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RIP Ursula LeGuin. Her best line ever: "He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in."

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MLK 4/4/67: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today--my own government." True then, true now."

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Elect a racist, expect bigotry. Elect a fool, expect folly. Elect a clown, expect a circus. Elect Donald Trump, expect Donald (I'm a genius) Donald Trump

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NFL kneelers deserve praise. The anthem is a war song: rockets glaring, bombs bursting. I've never stood for it, much less sung it.

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Starting my 35th year teaching Peace Studies. Fall semester: 7 courses at 5 schools: AU,G'town law, Md, B-CC, G'town. Come sit in at any.

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Pardoning Arpaio: time to get legal-sized paper to list the mounting lies, insults, gropings, scums and scams of T. Single space it, too.

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War budget or peace budget? The $52 billion increase in military spending is paid for by $52 billion decrease in social programs.

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Dick Gregory was arrested in 1972 protesting at the S. African embassy in DC. I took my boys to visit him in jail. Dick blessed them. RIP.

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Where to start? How about stop lying to ourselves, that we live in the United States when it's really the Disunited States. Honesty helps.