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  • She Would Have Turned 60 Today

    February 28, 2020
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    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

    February 15, 2015
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    “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

    January 12, 2015
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    Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.

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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamic Fascism, Jasser

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  • A Bishop, a Rabbi and an Imam Walked Into a Room a Few Miles from Ground Zero…

    September 11, 2011
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    The service bulletin thoughtfully provided an English translation of the call to prayer, which begins and ends with “Allahu Akbar.” Tragically, that phrase is associated in my mind with the hatred and anger of too many terrorist attacks. It was a blessing on this day to hear in those words an affirmation of our common…

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    Episcopalian Issues, Islam, Web Goddess
  • Bailouts: Further Down the Slippery Slope

    November 15, 2008
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    David Brooks makes the case against an auto industry bailout more eloquently than I did: A Detroit bailout would set a precedent for every single politically connected corporation in America. There already is a long line of lobbyists bidding for federal money. If Detroit gets money, then everyone would have a case. After all, are…

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    Capitalism, Financial Meltdown
  • “Binders Full of Women”: c.f. “You Didn’t Build That,” (context behind)

    October 17, 2012
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    The context behind Romney’s faux pas makes it clear that he has been a leader in identifying and appointing qualified women to senior positions.

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    2012 Election, Capitalism, Obama, Romney, Women
  • “When Your Policemen Wear Ski Masks, It’s Time for a New Regime”

    June 17, 2009
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    Via Powerline — violent content warning.

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    Iran
  • Dumbest Headline of the Day, as the Afghanistan Speech Looms

    December 1, 2009
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    The true risk, and the reason some of us favored John McCain for the role of Commander-in-Chief, is that Obama and many Democrats seem intent on convincing us that America is NOT at war. This is why the indefensible decision to treat Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a criminal, rather than as an enemy, is so…

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    Afghanistan, Bush’s Third Term, Military, Obama
  • Obama’s Not-So-Invisible Hand

    April 7, 2009
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    Now that the Automaker-in-Chief has fired the CEO of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to sell itself to Fiat by the end of April,  he’s turning his attention to a variety of other essential American industries, from blue jeans (“Levis yes; Wrangler no”) to toothpaste to ballpoint pens.  President Obama also graciously acknowledged the important…

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    Auto Industry, Capitalism, Financial Meltdown, Obama

All That Is Necessary

. . . for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing

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