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Does domestic violence affect only the two people in an intimate relationship who live together? Should it be extended to partners who don’t live together and to all victims of domestic violence including children and family members?  Is physical violence the only type of domestic...
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I'm bettin' Beto's chances are zippo. I believe he's sincere and probably a little too honest. If he couldn't beat Grandpa Munster, no way can he take on the anti-Christ.
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Eyes are transfixed on the lighted screen, glued to the flashing line that keeps time as reliably as a clock. Blink, blink, goes the cursor against the empty white background. The eyelids never move. Neither do the hands. They hover over the keyboard, motionless. The...
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No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors “The Chance for Peace” (16 April 1953) By now, only the truly witless still believe that...
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I wrote this 20 months ago and, after today’s announcement of Sarah Sander’s exit, I thought I’d give her a proper send-off by repeating the column.
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In the book Queer British Art — Alex Farquharson, Director — Tate Britain said,  “In the past few decades LGBTQIA artists have made a prominent contribution to the development of contemporary art, as major collections of contemporary art attest.” Is it important that Queer Art...
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The fabulous Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning associate editor for The Washington Post, said it best, “If Trump doesn’t warrant impeachment, who does?” Exactly. In 1868, the first president to be impeached was Abraham Lincoln’s Veep, Andrew Johnson. Johnson was a morally disgusting man who devised...
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Asking me to pray is like ordering a Big Mac for a vegan or tossing your Tesla keys to an Amish dude.
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