Feb 24 2015
American exceptionalism isn’t our national religion. Criticism of the US isn’t a sin By Megan Carpentier, Tuesday 24 February 2015 12.45 EST There is danger in buying your own hype, of listening exclusively to the people who think you can do no wrong because you’re you: your right-ness becomes tautological, based on the sole …
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Feb 24 2015
The myth and lie of American exceptionalism By Tom Ehrich, February 24 at 11:32 AM TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — While I was driving to this eastern Oklahoma city that serves as capital of the Cherokee Nation, the Oklahoma Legislature was considering a bill to ban the teaching of history based on facts. Instead, the legislators …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: America is in deep trouble! Trouble? From what? Is it from radical Islamic terrorism? Al-Qaida? ISIS or Islamic State? Not even close — it’s global warming! That’s right! That’s what the Obama administration told us recently. They said that “the danger from global warming is far more dangerous to us than extreme …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages of this newspaper. In the religion section. Apparently asteroid BL86, in just 12 short years, …
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Feb 22 2015
Beating Back ISIS By Martin Accad, February 20, 2015 Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only the ones that the media reports. ISIS, in reality, is committing massacres on a daily basis. We have become familiar with their crimes in Syria …
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Feb 21 2015
Testament of Dom Christian de Chergé (opened on Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1996) Facing a GOODBYE … If it should happen one day — and it could be today — that I become a victim of the terrorism which now seems ready to engulf all the foreigners living in Algeria, I would like my …
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Feb 07 2015
Visitor from space By Donald Cunningham, February 7, 2015 Recently, our planet had a visitor from outer space, and I don’t mean Klaatu. It was what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has labeled “2004 BL86,” a giant asteroid, passing just 745,000 miles from the Earth. That’s about three times the distance we …
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