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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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“Islamism Is Not a Movement to be Engaged, It Is an Enemy to be Defeated”
You’ll never see me use the term “War on Terror” outside of quotation marks. Terror is not the enemy, it is one of the enemy’s tactics. That part is simple. Deciding what to call the enemy is much more complicated. I continue to resist the idea that Islam itself is the enemy, although others are…
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Ready, Fire, Aim: Obama Signs "Stimulus" Bill
No worries — Sasha and Malia’s kids will pay for it Michael Gerson describes the porkulus legislation signed by President Obama yesterday: The bill was written in monopartisan secrecy, weighed down by irrelevant spending, considered in a rushed, uninformed debate and passed on a virtually party-line vote. The law contains provisions that seem to weaken…
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Lissenup, GOP: “Democrat” Is a Noun.
The Adjective is “Democratic”If you need a handy analogy to understand why references such as “Democrat leaders” or “the Democrat Party” are offensive, consider the difference between the phrases, “He’s a Jewish boy” and “He’s a Jew boy.”
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Oliphant’s Cartoon Is Not Just Despicable, It’s Dangerous
At Israel Insider, Barry Rubin does the best job I’ve seen of describing precisely why Pat Oliphant’s recent cartoon — featuring a goose-stepping, headless swordsman pushing a Jew-shark-on-a-unicycle — is so powerful, and so powerfully offensive. Hat tip: Andy McCarthy. Is the cartoon truly anti-Semitic, or is it “merely” anti-Israel? I say both, but whatever.…
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Shameless Self-Promotion: Episcopal Edition
I just realized I haven’t bragged about this yet. It turns out I’m an award-winning writer. .
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3 Questions About the Tea Party Debacle
President Obama didn’t need to twist the knife after winning. Conservative pundits are lining up to do it for him.