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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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  • Islam May Not Be the Enemy, But the Enemy Is Islamic

    June 6, 2010
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali has earned the right to be critical of Islam. She was raised as a devout Muslim in Somalia and Kenya.  At the age of five, her genitals were cut in a barbaric Somali ritual at the insistence of her Islamic grandmother.  In her twenties, her Islamic father gave her in marriage to…

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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamic Fascism, Jasser, Muslim Heroes
  • A Scary Road Ahead for the U.S. Economy

    March 12, 2011
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    In the midst of the coverage this past week of the various pathologies of Muammar Gaddafi, the Wisconsin legislature and Charlie Sheen, some of the most ominous news was largely overlooked. Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) confirmed that billionaire Bill Gross, manager of the world’s largest bond fund, had completely eliminated U.S. Treasury Bonds from…

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    Financial Meltdown, Stimulus
  • Obama’s “I Blame George Bush” Act Is Growing Old

    July 30, 2011
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    More than 30 months into the era of Obamanomics, the administration is still desperately seeking to blame all of the nation’s woes on George W. Bush. They’re getting less and less traction with that argument — Obama’s approval rating just hit a new low of 40%, according to Gallup’s tracking poll.

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    Bush, Financial Meltdown, GOP Budget, Health Care, Obama
  • Today’s NJ Gay Marriage Vote Hurts Real People

    January 7, 2010
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    Same-sex marriage is a straightforward civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. I believe I’ll see it in my lifetime. But New Jersey took a step in the wrong direction today, and I weep for my friends.

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    Gay Issues, Maplewood, New Jersey, Web Goddess
  • Health Care Debate Involves First Principles: Capitalism vs. Command Economy

    December 27, 2009
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    The battle cry of the left is that “health care should be a right, not a privilege.” This is brilliant framing — it sneakily implies that the right believes health care should be a privilege. The problem, of course, is that no health care system can provide every treatment for every person for every malady.

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    Capitalism, Health Care, Neo-neocon
  • In Search of A Thoughtful Liberal Economist

    April 15, 2011
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    A Facebook friend said Dean Baker is “a fine, clear-thinking economist, [and] he’s also an uncannily good press critic.” Sounds great — I’ve been looking for a source for regular commentary from a left-leaning economist, to balance out the right-leaning observations of my classmate Greg Mankiw. But I’m afraid I’m still looking.

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    China, Princeton

All That Is Necessary

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

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