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Fighting the Wrong War
We like our victims pure. They never are. Which brings us to the latest round robin of characters whose mess is in the public square, inciting smiles, head shakes, and outrage, and returning us to the...
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What Do You Believe?
What do you believe? Who do you believe? And what is the foundation for your beliefs? Those questions were overwhelmed in the noise but were underlined by the rage in the public square this week, on...
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Hooking Up the Wrong Way
Have Republicans forgotten they were elected to govern? Not when it comes to money and power. Money, especially. It’s being used in South Carolina to raise support for Lindsay Graham, up for reelection...
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The Price of Injustice
What’s the price of injustice? What’s its costs to the human soul? There is a lot of buzz in the world, from the Zimmerman trial’s 100-city rallies this weekend to Brazil’s millions-month-long protests...
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The Painful Lives of Our Youngest Pawns
(Warning: Disturbing image near the end of the article.) What does a grown man feel as he kicks and punches a child viciously in the head? What fear or anger propels the blows? Doesn’t the thud...
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What Is Happening to the Children
What’s happening to the children? I bet your first thought is which children? The kidnapped girls in Nigeria who captured the interest of the world, gaining commitments from international governments...
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Take Five (Well, Shut My Mouth edition)
ONE: Vinny Laughs Last With NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and his career hanging by a thread, it’s been fascinating to contemplate his attempts at apology and explanation for his Iraq tall...
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Race As National Policy Potpourri
In philosophy, where the ideas and logic that are mental models for appropriate acts and policy reside, a single person and a single idea have driven American elections since 2008—President Barack...
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Abortion, Religion, and Rape: America’s Politics 2016
“When life begins with that horrible situation of rape, that is something God intended to happen,” said Republican candidate Richard Mourdock in Indiana (a Midwest state of farms and cities) in 2012....
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The Summer’s Solstice Signals The Beginning of Dark Dreams
Digger deeper means looking around the edges, going within, and focusing on the obvious denials and lies that inform politics, searching out why and its meanings for all. But more, Digging Deeper, the...
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