Jul 02 2011

Keeping it real

The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence

By , 07/ 2/11 08:30 AM ET … When I moved to San Francisco decades ago, I was invited to any number of July 4th gatherings. They all had…  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Holier than all the martyrs

A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel

By Sefi Rachlevsky, 02:11 01.07.11 … When King Lior parted from the evildoers, who had detained him for an hour of questioning, he turned to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was…  [more]

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Jul 02 2011

Fides quaer ens intellectum

All good reasoning proceeds from prior commitments and beliefs

By , Friday 1 July 2011 22.29 BST … Over 40 years ago, I was taking part in a seminar during which the Australian Jesuit theologian Gerald O’Collins defined…  [more]

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Jul 01 2011

Sound familiar?

The invasion of Australia

By John Pilger, Friday 1 July 2011 21.15 BST … The City of Sydney council has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff,…  [more]

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Jun 30 2011

Well, well

From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever!  Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national…  [more]

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Jun 28 2011

A little piece of me dies

Is America’s plight so terrible that it would lurch this far?

By Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 … Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly…  [more]

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Jun 26 2011

Forgive them

Tales of the Demonic

By Richard Beck, 6.25.2011 … Last year I was sitting in the backyard typing away on my laptop. It was one of those wonderful mornings where I’m working outside with a cup of coffee and the…  [more]

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