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October 28, 2020 - August 6, 2022
We are too busy doing GoFundMe’s for the funerals of our friends whose previous GoFundMe failed to cover their health care.
crime committed brazenly is over time redefined as something other than crime. It is entertainment, and then it is autocracy, and then it is too late.
Mark Twain adage: “Get your facts straight first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” We were not yet in a factual free-for-all: readers had the
For the past four years, I have been taking my children on road trips around America, in the event of its demise.
They have been to the oldest mosque in America, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where they were given Ramadan candy by a welcoming imam.
“The Chance for Peace.” It says: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”