Dec 14 2017
The Black Community in Alabama Saved Us From White Evangelicals By John Pavlovitz, December 13, 2017 (updated December 14, 2017) As news of Doug Jones’ victory came in last night I initially rejoiced. Watching one of the reddest places in America turn blue, and seeing voters there reject one of the most reprehensible candidates …
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Dec 08 2017
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Trump is where he is because of his appeal to racism’ By Donald McRae, Friday 8 December 2017 13.26 EST Like all people my age I find the passage of time so startling,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says with a quiet smile. The 70-year-old remains the highest points-scorer in the history of the NBA …
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Nov 24 2017
One Hundred Percent American By Ralph Linton in The American Mercury (volume 40, 1937, pages 427-29) There can be no question about the average American’s Americanism or his desire to preserve this precious heritage at all costs. Nevertheless, some insidious foreign ideas have already wormed their way into his civilization without his …
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Nov 21 2017
Hedd Wyn: the shepherd poet whose story shows the stupidity of war By Giles Fraser, Thursday 9 November 2017 When the first world war broke out, the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans was working as a shepherd on the family hill farm in north Wales. Generally better known by his bardic name, Hedd Wyn, …
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Nov 20 2017
Invention of the Mizrahim By Susan Abulhawa, 20 Sept 2017 The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical …
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Nov 09 2017
With Paul Manafort’s indictment, Donald Trump is done By Garrison Keillor, Tuesday 31 October 2017 08:13 GMT When his old campaign manager was indicted Monday, Mr Trump called me on the phone, crying like a baby, and begged me to endorse him. I said, “You’re already President, Mr President. You were elected.” He said, …
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Nov 06 2017
Why I’m no longer talking to God about gun sprees after the Texas shooting By Grace Dent, Monday 6 November 2017 17:36 GMT After the killing on Sunday of 26 members of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County, shot dead in the middle of a church service, I am calling …
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