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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 Beheading Victim Was Also Muslim
Nearly a week after her husband allegedly cut off her head, Aasiya Zubair Hassan still smiles confidently into the camera for the high-resolution publicity photo available on the website of the TV station the couple started. If you download the photo, you’ll discover that the filename is “Mo – Assiya – 3 – High.jpg”. It’s…
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Is It Bad if I Don’t Vote in an Off-Year, Off-Month, Off-Week, Off-Day NJ Senate Election, the Outcome of Which Is Not in Doubt?
Uniquely among Newark mayors of the past half-century, Booker hasn’t even been indicted for anything.
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Oh, That Nigerian Terrorist… Oopsie-Doopsie!
So the latest terrorist is being interrogated, but why should we believe anything he says? His pants literally were on fire! We can laugh because the terrorist botched the job, but it could have been very unfunny. And while I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that intelligence agencies “should have known” about 9/11 in…
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I Stand With Israel
Spare me from listening to officials of the thugocracy-infested United Nations complaining that Israel’s assault against Hamas is “disproportionate.” Of course it is. It should be. When a sovereign nation gets goaded into war by terrorist attacks upon civilians, its goal should be to destroy the terrorist infrastructure and kill as many terrorists as possible.…
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Surprise! “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” Draws Threats
The theory behind “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” is that the jihadis can’t kill all of us. Let’s hope there are no casualties at all.
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A Conservative Sticks Up for Harry Reid, Sort of
I don’t agree with every syllable of Nicholas Guariglia’s commentary, but this part works: Senator Harry Reid is a corrupt statist, embodying everything wrong with the 111th U.S. Congress. But he isn’t a bigot. Reid deserves, and will likely receive, a humiliating electoral defeat in November. But he doesn’t deserve a coerced resignation, which would…