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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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"The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost."
That’s not an op-ed piece, it’s the lead sentence of an Associated Press article. As James Taranto points out, it’s kind of the mirror image of Walter Cronkite coming out against the Vietnam War.
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Abortion Should Be Safe And Legal — But It Stops A Beating Heart
The abortion issue lends itself to extremism. The only logically consistent positions are at the extremes. The pro-life extreme can be summed up in three words: “Abortion is murder.” The pro-choice extreme is more complicated. The mainstream pro-choice movement’s rallying cry of “keep abortion safe and legal” doesn’t come close to being extreme. Something can…
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Bankruptcy is the Right Medicine for Automakers
Look at the bright side – GM stock only has $3 farther to fall. (From Yahoo Finance) The more I read and think about a potential further bailout of the auto industry, the nuttier the idea sounds. Michael E. Levine is a former airline executive, so he knows about bankruptcy. He puts it this way…
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A Scary Road Ahead for the U.S. Economy
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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Governor Christie Kicks Ass and Takes Names
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Chris Christie, because of his extreme anti-gay position, and I imagine I’ll have occasion again to oppose him on that topic. In the meantime, I love listening to him talk about the budget and take on the teachers unions, as in the video above. If you don’t have…
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Syria Crisis Creates Strange Bedfellows in the U.S. and the World
A lot of people have been rethinking some of their most basic assumptions.