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Joe Biden gave a speech online accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president on Thursday, August 20, 2020. Advisers intended a safe, centrist speech. Biden avoided obvious gaffes during his delivery. But some odd moments crept in.
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She is regarded as the "greatest American Catholic Writer" according to one of the books I use in my classes (The Catholic Spirit). Bishop Robert Barron filmed a documentary of her, as part of his The Pivotal Players of Catholicism series.
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America is in the throes of an attempted cultural revolution that has parallels with the Cultural Revolution in China. Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, and it lasted until his death in 1976. It paralyzed China for a decade and caused the death and dislocation of
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It sounded like the makings of a wonderful speech, calling Americans to come together and build. "If you believe in one another and if you do the right thing for yourself and your community, things will get better in this country."
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It was if they never heard of social distancing (which they hadn't). They packed into the square, the crowd estimates ranging from a quarter- to a half-million. What drew the crowd?
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[Editor's Note: Below is the body of the email message of Sunday, June 7, 2020 that got Father Daniel Moloney fired as Catholic chaplain of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, interrupted by analysis. Father Moloney's text is in this font. The analysis is in this font.
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"What did I do to deserve this? What purpose does this serve? … They're not doing it to protest. They're doing this for chaos." — Restaurant owner in Downtown Crossing in Boston talking about his trashed cafe to NBC 10, Sunday, May 31, 2020
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Governor Charlie Baker should act now to end the lockdown in many Massachusetts counties and towns — despite the public health officials and experts who predict a flood of deaths should businesses be allowed to reopen. Some of these are the same experts whose previous models were wildly inaccurate, predicting more
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