Month: September 2012
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Celebrating Ten Years of Father Bernie Poppe’s Ministry in Maplewood
Ten years ago this week, the Rev. Bernard W. Poppe led his first service as Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church. I still remember how he started his first sermon.
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“47%” and “You Didn’t Build That”: Two Sides of the Same Coin
The election offers a stark choice between competing visions of the proper role for government.
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Never Forget
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.†That sentence is the purest possible distillation of my worldview, and September 11 is a powerful annual reminder of why I regard it as an enduring truth.
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Why Do People Make Tendentious Statements As Though They Were Established Fact?
People who treat the opposition as fools or knaves or worse need to understand that they’re not likely to change any votes that way.
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The Video Clip Jon Stewart Would Make if He Were a Republican
This is brilliant — a compilation of near-identical sound bites from Obama’s campaign speeches in 2008 and 2012. Well worth a minute & 58 seconds of your time.