What do we really cherish? America absolves itself the same way a smoker convinces himself he’ll never get cancer. In both cases, there is plenty of available information from which the truth of the matter can be gleaned, but that…
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I’ve been meaning to ask you if you watched the Saturday night Saddleback forum and, if so, what you thought of it. I’ll go ahead and give you my two-cents’ take…
First, Rick Warren came across as a little too…
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http://mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm
A woman asked the cloud: please enfold my loved one
My clothes are soaked with his blood
If you shall not be rain, my love
Be trees
Saturated with fertility, be trees
And if you shall not be trees, …
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I watched Obama’s Berlin speech today on MSNBC. As soon as it was over, the bobble-head commentators (those erudite members of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate castrati) started trying to resuscitate the fading McCain in their desperation to keep the election…
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Ms. Gassaway,
I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.” …
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“So it is that democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent, while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it. Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control, while offering ordinary…
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Sent: Wed 6/11/2008 8:15 PM
To: [deleted]
Subject: RE: Lebanon Falls.
Dear [deleted] and friends,
Normally I wouldn’t respond to something like this, but when you wrote that this was “the clearest picture of the situation in Lebanon and the…
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