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Love, to be true, has to hurt. Though Blessed Mother Teresa spoke these words over 20 years ago, few can forget the waves her comments made through the carefully patrolled waters of American politics. At the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast, Mother Teresa called abortion the "greatest destroyer of peace,
GOP
It has been almost a week, but a line from Marco Rubio's concession speech keeps echoing in my mind: "[We've run] a campaign to be a president that would love all of the American people, even the ones that don't love you back.
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I watched last night's State of the Union address as I do each year; with a cautious optimism. I always wonder what, specifically, the President will choose to address, and, more pessimistically, I wonder if he will tell the truth. Last night's speech was marred by
brave new world
In Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel "Brave New World," sex is nothing more than a conditioned, physical interaction between two consenting adults. People are pre-conditioned from a young age to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else," and concepts like commitment and monogamy are
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I teach at an all-girls private school, so feminism comes up all the time. Some students proudly self-identify as feminists, others cringe at the label, others have no idea what it really means. When it comes up in class, I always require the students to define the term before using