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Robert Weller is a veteran of 40 years of journalism, including more than 35 years with Associated Press. He has covered news in 31 countries and 11 states.

Coverage included tragedies like the Columbine High School massacre and the Ethiopian famine. He also has covered the military, including the initially inadequate medical coverage of PTSD victims, and the Air Force Academy rape scandal. But the environment, skiing and art, especially painting, opera, sculpture, and literature also have been topics.

He is a graduate of William Jewell College, where he earned a B.A. with a history major.

Weller is married to Marlien Weller, a native of Johannesburg, and the couple has 17-year-old twins, Madeleine and Zachary.


Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4359936-lincoln-to-obama


  1. Are we descending into a nation of Internet-powered shouting, spurned by some of our friends overseas as worse than a country of damn dirty apes?
  1. Of course, answers may be found on the World Wide Web, too.

“The human spirit worldwide needs some urgent lifting to get it out of the gutter again,” wrote Utopian Indigent of South Africa, in a comments section on one of the latest memes.  movie that has found favor, embedded in a post on some other subject.

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