Nov 19 2023
Another Jim Palmer Facebook Post August 28, 2023 “You can’t pin Christianity on Jesus. It’s not his fault. Christianity is Paul’s burden to bear, with a little help from the earliest church councils. In my view, Jesus and Paul would have not gotten along well, and Jesus would have been dismayed by many of …
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Sep 24 2023
Dr. Jim Ragland, of Allen, Texas, died September 24, 2023 at the age of 99. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma in 1924 to James Jordan Ragland and Zelda Keithley Ragland. He was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Leola Lee Ragland, his parents, and his sister JoAnn Craddick. He is …
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Jul 29 2023
Is This the End of Bibi? By David Remnick, July 22, 2023 Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel longer than anyone in the history of the state, longer than F.D.R. was President of the United States. And yet, for …
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Apr 17 2023
How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures By Monica Potts, April 6, 2023 “Boy crazy” was what people called it. “She was so boy crazy,” I would hear about my girlfriends. I never heard the reverse, that a boy was “girl crazy.” Girls having crushes, sneaking out at night to have fun: It seems innocent …
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Aug 03 2022
1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022 The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …
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Jan 27 2022
The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America By Kurt Andersen, January 25, 2022 In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to …
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Sep 07 2021
His Name Was Emmett Till By Wright Thompson, September 2021 Issue, The Atlantic The dentist was a few minutes late, so I waited by the barn, listening to a northern mockingbird in the cypress trees. His tires kicked up dust when he turned off Drew Ruleville Road and headed across the bayou toward …
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