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Is our moral compass falling apart? Or, are we becoming more morally attuned?
Dear Fred,Thanks for your email.Mostly I agree with you.But I think there is an emerging consensus on good behavior and that it is significantly less tolerant of prejudice and violence.Globally, I...
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Rather Than Slashing Social Security How About Lifting the Cap?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/research_desk_responds_could_r.htmlResearch Desk responds: Could raising the income cap save Social Security?By Dylan Matthewsjpeg asks:Back during...
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National Geographic: Gas Price Soars Despite Highest Domestic Oil Output In...
The capacity of oil refineries, a crucial link between crude oil supply and final gasoline product at the pump, can have a significant effect on U.S. fuel prices. Shown here: a Standard Oil refinery in...
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Palestinian Farmer, Emad Burnat: "I have no memory of a time without struggle."
Co-director Emad Burnat with his five broken camerasSTORY HIGHLIGHTSFilmmaker Emad Burnat has lived in the West Bank under military occupation all his lifeHe started filming the early years of his...
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PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO7 Comments/2,26, 2013Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., wasn't invited to speak at next month's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because the organizers feel he has a...
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Sotomayor chides prosecutor for ‘racially charged’ question
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrives for the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C.By Robert Barnes, Published: February 25Supreme...
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'Gigantic Jet' Lightning Spotted Over China
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Why are top-ranking Mexican officials so corrupt? They seem to consider it a...
Mexico union leader Elba Esther Gordillo arrestedMs Gordillo, 68, is known simply as "la maestra" or "the teacher"Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesMexico enacts major education...
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New England Journal Of Medicine: At Least Seven Glasses Of Wine Per Week
.James Hamblin, MD, is The Atlantic's Health editorFEB 25 2013Pivotal research in the New England Journal of Medicine today confirmed well-worn notions that the Mediterranean diet -- including produce,...
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Once 'inconceivable,' Republican leaders sign pro-gay marriage brief
The full emancipation of gays and lesbians parallels the emancipation of blacks.This sea change is taking place with the same astounding speed as the collapse of the Soviet Union.Just as the secular...
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"White Smoke and a Black Pope: Is Turkson the Church's Future?" (The New Yorker)
Excerpt: "On a more individual level, Turkson has a compelling personal story. Born into a poor family, the son of a carpenter, he played in a funk and Afro-beat band when he was younger. To support...
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The Stupidity Of Austerity
The real face of austerity.Guess whose slice will shrink most.***Excerpt: "The sequester slated to begin taking effect Friday is a particularly mindless form of an already stupid policy, poised to...
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This Is How Wars Start
After Uncle Sam implements austerity -- provoking higher unemployment and devastation of infrastructure and education -- why should we believe the world will beat a path to our door?***Japan -- with...
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Michelle Obama Presents Best Picture Oscar
Michelle Obama announcing the Academy Award for Best Picture.***Here's what American conservatives would have preferred seeing:Christian fundamentalism and Islamic jihad are mirror images of one another.
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What Dick Hagel actually said about Israel's "sickening slaughter"
Jim Inhofe"Been lying so long they don't know what's real."People See Through YouStudio Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JkTgdTKd0Lyrics:...
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"People See Through You" by Bruce Cockburn
"People See Through You"Studio Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JkTgdTKd0Lyrics: http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/psty.html***Alan: Tonight, my boy Danny and I see Bruce perform at...
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"G.K. Chesterton's Universalism" by Edward T. Babinski
The following article, in its entirety, is located at http://etb-history-theology.blogspot.com/2012/04/gk-chestertons-universalism.htmlG.K. Chesterton's UniversalismI have difficulty seeing what...
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