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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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  • Mideast Uprisings Bode Well for Bush’s Freedom Agenda

    February 21, 2011
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    The Washington Post has a helpful interactive map providing an overview of the ongoing unrest in a dozen countries throughout the Middle East, with tabs for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Any of these uprisings could end badly of course, but the possibilities are exciting.  Can there…

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    Bush, Evil, Iraq
  • A Dime’s Worth of Balanced Thoughts on SOTU

    February 13, 2013
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    The national debt has increased by 58 trillion dimes since Obama took office.

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    Deficit, Fiscal Cliff, His and Her Candidates, Obama
  • 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?

    October 16, 2013
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    Uniquely among Newark mayors of the past half-century, Booker hasn’t even been indicted for anything.

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  • Never Forget

    September 10, 2010
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    This annual post was first published two years ago.  It is dedicated to the men and women of the United States armed forces, and to every firefighter who has ever run into a burning building — 343 of them in particular. The name of this blog comes from something that English statesman Edmund Burke apparently…

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    About Me, Evil, Islamic Fascism
  • Moderate Muslims Hold the Key to the War Against Islamic Fascism

    August 15, 2009
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    For some time I’ve been meaning to highlight the work of M.  Zuhdi Jasser and the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.  As their website describes, “AIFD was formed as an unmistakable expression of American liberty and freedom in an attempt to take back the faith of Islam from the demagoguery of the Islamo-fascists.”  Dr. Jasser…

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    Islam, Islamic Fascism, Jasser, Muslim Heroes
  • Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta

    July 14, 2010
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    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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    Financial Meltdown, Health Care, oil disaster, Stimulus

All That Is Necessary

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

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