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Hear the one about the guy who walked into a spa, asks to be given a Brazilian wax job? Or the one about the woman who was videotaped by a man in a TJ Maxx restroom? These are no jokes. We are being pushed to the edges of privacy and
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Shortly after signing on as Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running-mate, Senator Tim Kaine cheerily described his mission as reaching out to the Pope Francis Catholics. The Jesuit educated Kaine has joined a long line of Democratic politicians who are trying to have it both ways: professing to be
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One of the nation's most prestigious newspapers recently put out a weekend edition that prominently featured an essay on how much human life has improved in these last two centuries. The author is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, whom we have heard on more than one occasion described as
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Fashionable circles like to see looming ahead of us the end of democracy. Pundits stoke this idea, often because their candidate didn't win office, and they were the ruling elites. The rumbling goes on because progressive ideas aren't the only ones afloat. Freedom House publishes an
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A classic New Yorker cartoon many years ago captured some wisdom that has been lost in the Age of Weinstein. A dressed up, curvaceous young woman is walking on a street toward a middle-aged husband and wife. The thought balloon over the wife's head is of the young
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Religious leaders from the Pope to television evangelists keep insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. We are told that Islam advocates many of the same life-sustaining rules and ideas as Christianity and Judaism. That most Muslims are peace-loving, are children of God and want the same things out
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We all live in a moment in history where it is all-politics-all-the-time. Everything from our health to our wealth, from the womb to the tomb, is viewed through the lens of our increasingly divisive politics. The resulting distortions are many. The most serious is language, the very tool we use
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Immigration is one of the thorniest issues facing Americans today. All American should be involved in the decision concerning what is the best path both for our nation and for the millions, maybe even a billion, of individuals that want, often desperately, to be part of our nation. And why