Aug 10 2013
The biggest threat to America? The size of its own military budget By Michael Cohen, Friday 9 August 2013 09.30 EDT Dear America: I know you’ve got a lot on your mind these days. Work is a drag; the kids are still on summer vacation; the car is making an awful racket (it’s probably …
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Aug 09 2013
A Cold Current By Jesmyn Ward, August 7, 2013, 8:13 pm DeLisle, Miss. There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory. As a child of the …
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Aug 04 2013
Meet the Bush-loving, military women-fearing, likely new senator By Jillian Rayfield, Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 04:22 PM CDT Freshman congressman Tom Cotton will reportedly announce next week that he is running for Senate against Mark Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat who is likely the most vulnerable incumbent up for reelection in 2014. Cotton, a young …
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Aug 03 2013
Christian Zionism: The New Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace By Revd Dr Stephen Sizer, Thursday, 01 August 2013 08:00 At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This view is known as Christian …
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Aug 02 2013
Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention 17 Sept. 1787 Farrand 2:641–43 The engrossed Constitution being read, Docr. Franklin rose with a speech in his hand, which he had reduced to writing for his own conveniency, and which Mr. Wilson read in the words following. Mr. President I confess that there are several parts of …
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Jul 27 2013
Why millennials are leaving the church By Rachel Held Evans, July 27th, 2013 08:33 AM ET At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and used Google as a verb. I …
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Jul 26 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013 CE, at 3:00PM CST O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge. It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue, and great, delicious, dripping irony (with apologies to the late, great Ogden Nash). …
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