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If an abundance of guns is the path to personal safety, why is the U.S. such...
Dear George,Thanks for your email.I don't have time to corroborate the appended article but it makes a persuasive that Kennesaw is not any safer than a similar community in Illinois which banned all...
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Pope wades into crowds, shocks bystanders in Rome
View PhotoAssociated Press/L'Osservatore Romano - In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013....
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Pope Francis: "Mercy (makes the world) more just."
I am heartened that Pope Frances places primary value on mercy, in part because mercy contributes to the fullness of justice.In his address from the balcony above St. Peter's Square on Sunday, March...
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Which do you value more? Mercy? Or Justice?
Dear Fred,Separated at birth? http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope-francis-mercy-makes-world-more-just.htmlA question on the Myers-Briggs test asks: Which do you value more - mercy or...
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Democrats Share the Blame for Tragedy of Iraq War
Alan: From the first rumor of war in Iraq, it was clear that Bush's justification for invasion would be more dimwitted than the rationale for Vietnam. Anyone with a folded cortex and an internet...
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American Conservatism and The Loss of Faith, Hope and Charity
The piggishness of America's ruling class -- and the lickspittle adulation of debased populists -- arises from the desperation of conservatives who have lost faith in everything but the salvific power...
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Violence and Medical Propaganda
This weapon is designed to kill human beings."Got gun?"***Dear Claiborne,The poster you sent is good propaganda.That said, the poster does not mention the number of lives lost to handguns in America...
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Hillary Clinton endorses same-sex marriage
David Jackson, USA TODAYMarch 18, 2013She says her "personal views have been shaped over time by people I have known and loved."(Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)STORY HIGHLIGHTSHer announcement comes in...
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NPR Series On Gun Deaths: The Tragedy Of Charles Foster Jr.
Charles Foster Jr. was shot and killed in a nightclub on Jan. 1, 2013. The first in his family to attend college, he was just a few months shy of graduation. Courtesy of the Foster familyView...
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NPR Series On Gun Deaths: The Tragedy Of Charles Foster Jr.
Charles Foster Jr. was shot and killed in a nightclub on Jan. 1, 2013. The first in his family to attend college, he was just a few months shy of graduation. Courtesy of the Foster familyAudio File:...
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FDR and the Jews - in context. More layers than an onion.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with the National Jewish Welfare Board — (left to right) Walter Rothschild, Chaplain Aryeh Lev, Barnett Brickner and Louis Kraft — at the White House on Nov. 8,...
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Thousands pack St. Peter's Square for Pope Francis' inauguration
The new pope is Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who takes the name Pope Francis. The announcement came on Wednesday, March 13, the first full day of...
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The Pope and the Poor
Monday, 18 March 2013 By Mark Engler, Dissent In November 2000, as Argentina’s economic crisis escalated, the country’s bishops, led by Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, emerged from a plenary...
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The Bishops of Argentina Address Argentina's Crisis (11-11-2000)
AFRONTAR CON GRANDEZA LA SITUACIÓN ACTUALConsuelen, consuelen a mi Pueblo, dice el Señor...Preparen en el desierto un camino, que se rellenen todos los vallesy se aplanen las montañas y colinas (Isaías...
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Dick Cheney Marks 10 Years Of Pretending There Was Reason To Invade Iraq
HOUSTON In a sombre ceremony attended by former members of the Bush Administration, the former Vice-President Dick Cheney marked the tenth anniversary of making up a reason to invade Iraq.The...
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The case for $22-an-hour minimum wage
My Dad's generation -- "The Greatest Generation" -- harbored a bedrock belief that labor and capital were collaborating in a national project of shared prosperity. As per capita productivity increased...
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Pope Francis and Social Sin
Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a teenager in Buenos Aires***"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most, yet reduced misery the least," Bergoglio said during a gathering of Latin...
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Denzel Washington: Preacher Man
Dear D,While tracking down information on folk-rock singer Michelle Shocked (who recently delivered a homophobic rant at a San Francisco concert, I learned that she attends the same Los Angeles church...
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Mike Lukovich Cartoon: Wayne LaPierre and the NRA
Historiqnw will look back on America's obsession with unregulated firearms as the high water mark of national stupidity.
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