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Two Views: Canada, India & An “Inconvenient” Assassination?
1. A Murder, a Diplomatic Dust-Up and the Risk of Impunity New York Times — Sept. 22, 2023 By Nicholas Kristof Nicholas Ktistof Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh...
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Quakers & Ugandan Catholics Called to Take Up Concern for LGBTQ Justice &...
Version #1 – The Original, from the National Catholic Reporter JUAN CARLOS CRUZ CHELLEW — June 2, 2023 The world is watching in disbelief as Uganda, a country known for its vibrant diversity and...
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Harvard, Affirmative Action, “Reparations,” & Me
An earlier exposés of legacy preference/WASP affirmative action, from 2006. One of the most shopworn and least shocking of discoveries about USA higher education Is that of Ivy League “affirmative...
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Quotes of the Day
Patti Davis, recalling the passing of her father, Ronald Reagan: “My hope is that people remember this about the royal family: In the end, though they breathe rarefied air, they grapple as we all do...
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Newest U. S. Catholic Cardinal – A Surprisingly “Progressive” Pick
BY DAVID CRARY — Aug 23, 2022 When San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy received his prestigious red hat at the Vatican on Saturday, he brought to the College of Cardinals a fervent loyalty to Pope Francis...
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Arizona’s Unbroken Election Hero: Rusty Bowers Speaks
The Guardian — Sun 21 Aug 2022 Interview Ousted Republican reflects on Trump, democracy and America: ‘The place has lost its mind’ Ed Pilkington in Mesa, Arizona Rusty Bowers is headed for the exit....
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YES — Swords (or rather, Guns) Into Plowshares. (Only a few million more to go!)
Raleigh NC News & Observer BY ILANA AROUGHETI UPDATED AUGUST 07, 2022 DURHAM The line of cars stretched three blocks as Durham County’s second gun buyback in four months began Saturday morning....
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Shining Light on the New Church of Rightwing Dark Money
ProPublica: A Right-Wing Think Tank Claimed to Be a Church. Now, Members of Congress Want to Investigate Andrea Suizzo — August 2, 2022 Forty members of Congress on Monday asked the IRS and the...
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Seven Years for Russian War Protester
The Guardian: Alexei Gorinov receives first long-term sentence under harsh laws introduced since Russian invasion Pjotr Sauer — Fri 8 Jul 2022 A court in Moscow has sentenced an opposition councillor...
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“Why We Did It” — A Review in Pieces – Part 1
Timothy Miller is a repentant ex-Republican operative, now a key member of “The Bulwark.” This is a group of mostly like-minded onetime GOP operatives, now Never Trumpers, still “conservative” on many...
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Remember “The Stench”? More Comment & Dissent on Roe’s End
The formal dissent, jointly written by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sotomayor, minces few words but primarily adopts a tone of deep concern or even alarm about the implications of the...
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Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .)
“Money,” truthfully spake the legendary California pol Jesse Unruh, “is the mother’s milk of politics.” And if money, rather than love, is All You Need (as spake, or crooned, the legendary Beatles),...
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It CAN Happen Here, Like It Did In Zimbabwe
Washington Post — Opinion I saw Mugabe wreck a democracy. The Jan. 6 hearings matter — a lot. Opinion by Evan Mawarire — June 14, 2022 Evan Mawarire, an evangelical pastor and the director of...
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A Pre-Autopsy of the Senate Gun Package: Not half a loaf; not half a slice; a...
COMMENT: The restrained Associated Press headline on its story reads “Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam.” The Raleigh NC News & Observer called it (more accurately, I...
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Ukraine, War Notes: The End of Euphoria, A Shift in The Odds
Washington Post: Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield Hopes that Ukraine will be able to reverse Russian gains are fading in the face of superior firepower By...
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Quakerism was born in a terrible civil war. Could it survive another one?
[NOTE: This review does not mention that amid the spreading devastation of the English Civil War, which in 1649 led to the execution of the defeated Charles I, a new radical religious group, derisively...
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Is This the “Pope Francis Alternative”? Ukraine and “Effective Nonviolent...
Pope Francis, Ukraine and “effective nonviolent resistance” National Catholic Reporter – May 30, 2022 by Eli McCarthy — Opinion Ukraine – so many new graves A bird sits on a cross amid newly made...
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Three Very Special Quotes of the Weekend
#1- The owners of Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the rifle apparently used in the massacre of 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., are deep-pocketed Republican donors, giving to...
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