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Reasonable people may differ on the wisdom of President Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Supporters of the pardon may see Arpaio's case as an example of a deplorable trend: the criminalization of policy differences. The Arizona lawman got caught in a fight over immigration
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We walked into the football stadium for Mass, to pray and say our goodbyes. I will give the College of the Holy Cross kudos for its credible transformation of a sports venue to a worship center. With help from a brass quartet, even the traffic sounds from nearby I-290 were
Editorials
Imagine a candidate for public office so shameless that she'll make up a nonexistent devotion to religion to try to appeal to voters. Now imagine a candidate who doesn't have to do it, because a local newspaper will do it for her.
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It's time for us to take a lesson from Black Lives Matter: Do … not … engage.
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In the second reading of this week's Torah Portion (Shoftim, or Judges), G-d anticipates that the Children of Israel will forget G-d many years after settling Eretz Yisrael (D'Varim 17:14-20) and demand a king like all the nations around it. This occurred in Chapter Eight
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A Catholic school is removing its Catholic statues to be more inclusive. While this sounds like another action in the continued debate over controversial monuments, this is more a trend of religions, especially Catholics, hiding their beliefs, or watering them down enough so as not to be a bother. It
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Twenty-five years ago, when MTV played mostly videos, defeated presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan delivered his "Culture War" speech before the Republican National Convention on August 17 at the Houston Astrodome, where he feared for the "soul of America." Twenty-five years later, when conservatives have ceded
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Yesterday as today, what we call reading skills heavily influence academic achievement. They further influence the development of writing skills beyond the early years of schooling when writing is almost a transcription of a child's speech patterns. The development of reading skills, especially a reading vocabulary, and then
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