Sam Osborne
Osborne is former editorial page editor for Gannett News’s Iowa City Press Citizen and prior to that a college professor and business department chair.
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Articles by Sam Osborne
March 17, 2007
Though rough and tumble, American politics has served to broaden the reach of liberty. However George W. Bush’s 2000 election campaign brought to life a freedom-killing variety that incubated in the White House and pathologically spread to extremist on the political and religious right.
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November 18, 2006
A war with a “foreign devil” may serve the purposes of a leader that desires to control the thinking of his people, but a bogus threat to their security does not assist that people in their effort to find a better way for themselves and the neighbors with whom they must live.
“They hate us...
February 21, 2006
The importance of the concept of evolution to science developed over many decades. It was only when its efficacy became important to a wide array of scientific pursuits (from genetics, to paleontology, agronomy, epidemiology, etc.) that there was an understanding that it needed to be presented to yo...