Jul 04 2012

Let’s be honest for a change

Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead?

By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13   I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply  cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!”…  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

Thinking like Shamir

It was Zionism itself that Israel buried this week. Let it go.

By Bradley Burston, Jul.03, 2012 1:36 PM   It’s time to take a lesson from the successful. It’s time to begin thinking like Yitzhak Shamir. When he …  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

Even facts now have a point of view

Thomas Jefferson, our least Christian president

By Stephen Prothero, July 3 2012   During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello…  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

Uneasy patriot

Jackie Robinson on the 4th: The Prophet and the Flag

By , 07/05/2012 10:42 am   One of the quiet but powerful engines that drove Jackie Robinson’s passion for racial integration both on and beyond the baseball…  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

Love requires a response

Reborn on the 4th of July

By , 07/04/2012  8:18 am   Today marks my sixth rebirthday. In 2006, I was baptized and became a Christian in Honolulu, Hawaii. One week later, I would be told that my…  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

Whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate

Francis Scott Key on trial

By , Wednesday, Jul  4, 2012 06:30 AM CDT   In the final two days of U.S. v. Reuben Crandall, on April 25 and 26, 1836, Washington’s district attorney, Francis Scott Key,…  [more]

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Jul 04 2012

War’s a nasty thing

Anniversary of the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir

Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 3 July 2012   And what lessons we have to learn from this most ironic of sea battles, in which the British sank a large part of the French …  [more]

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