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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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Facebook Bleg
I wish I’d thought of this before my BFF Andrew Sullivan sent more than 5,000 of his readers to my “Catfight” post, but here we are. For those of you who have found your way back here, I have a “bleg” (as in “blog beg,” a parallel coinage with “blog” from “web log.” Forgive me…
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Ted Cruz Casts Himself as Shaw’s Unreasonable Man
Part of me wants to admire Ted Cruz. But he doesn’t make himself easy to like.
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Time May Have Expired for Obama’s “Crisis=Opportunity” Tactics
A few weeks after the November election, incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is, an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Things like ramming through a mammoth “stimulus” bill…
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Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta
ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill, a financial services “reform” measure that does a lot of things — but fails to address the actual causes of…
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Grateful to Live in the Shining City on the Hill
Conservative Peggy Noonan takes a step back from the gloomy economy and focuses on the big picture: People are angry but don’t have a plan, and they’ll give the incoming president unprecedented latitude and sympathy, cheering him on. I told a friend it feels like a necessary patriotic act to be supportive of him, and…
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It’s Not at Ground Zero and It’s Not a Mosque;
I Don’t Want It There, But I Don’t Want It BannedThread the needle time. Like the moderate Muslims I quoted in my prior post, I’m opposed to the project that has become known as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” As a blogger called milowent has pointed out, the project is not at Ground Zero, and it’s not a mosque. I agree with those narrow statements of…