The opening salvos have been fired in the battle over Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement, offering vivid, if disquieting, reminders of just how polarized America has become.
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Playing Well With Others
Didn’t Brian Bosma or John Hostetler ever play with other kids when they were young? Or have they just forgotten how to play well with others?
We are used to these “Righteous Brothers” whining whenever anyone objects to their efforts to use government to force their beliefs on everyone else. Tell them to stop bullying others, and you are accused of prejudice against “people of faith.” It reminds most parents of their three-year-old stamping his foot and insisting that if he can’t take that other kid’s candy, it isn’t fair.
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CommentsGovernment Terrorism
When the media first reported that a White House functionary — later identified as Craig Livingstone -had obtained files containing personal information on Bush Administration employees, a lot of us felt queasy. The image of some partisan operative gloating over private information he might use to benefit his patrons and…
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Pro-Family?
Civil libertarians are under attack again, this time for insisting upon equal protection of the laws. The accusation is that support for equal legal treatment of women and gay people, is "anti-family." Apparently, if one is for "traditional family values" one must therefore be against civil rights…
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Rights & Responsibilities
One cannot read the papers or listen to social conversations without being struck by the level of frustration with society’s seeming inability to address and correct current social problems. Those problems are very real: disintegrating family structure, crime and violence,…
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