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The tents house the people we don’t want to see. These humble structures that sit low in the valleys between skyscrapers and monuments, remind us of inequality, of the unpredictability of unfairness, of the ways in which capitalism and the American Dream don’t work. They represent one immoral truth out of many.
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People who won't condemn a terror group or the horrific pogrom it carried out on Oct. 7, who never demand that Hamas release its hostages, who single out for condemnation a democratic society beset by profoundly illiberal forces all around it, are presuming to lecture everyone else about "complicity."
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The Jewish people have a slogan, “Never Again,” in reference to the Holocaust. With the incendiary language and threatening behavior rolling across many college campuses, we may be approaching “again.”
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Marxy-Nazi progressives play word games to confuse, delude and condemn their opponents, but more importantly to camouflage their authoritarian programs, totalitarian personalities and genocidal tools of mass murder and starvation.
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There needs to be a certain radical acceptance of the right to make bad choices.
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It’s easy to see why Trump should consider Vance to be a strong contender. It’s quite a bit harder to see what the self-made Vance finds appealing in Trump, other than a means to a political end.
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Unfortunately, we’re seeing much of the same anger and outrage over the relentless bombing of Gaza and the cruel hostage dramas of Hamas that led to mass arrests and graduation cancellations that some of us old-timers easily and unhappily recall from the Vietnam era.
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The question as dairy farmers “go out,” as we say, is “Where do the farmers go? What do they do now?” The answer is more than simply, “They get jobs in town.”
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There is about a 50% chance that Donald Trump will win election again and, if he's not tried before November, he'll shut down the prosecutions of him. But the idea that a complicated case relying on novel use of federal statutes and involving a former president should, or could, be slammed through the courts like a case about an overdue parking ticket was always ridiculous.
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This is not directly about the issues animating the "pro-Palestinian" demonstrations at many colleges. Rather it's about the air of privilege filling the sails of hypocrisy on which many ride.
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Morality, good behavior and decency appear to be electives, not requirements, on too many of today’s university campuses whose “students” (and apparently not all are students) are now running the institutions of what might be called lower learning.
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I am certain that I lost consciousness, so, no way could I have called an ambulance.
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“Sleeping is a biological necessity. It’s sort of like breathing,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said during a hearing on the case. “You can say breathing is conduct, too, but presumably you would not think that it’s okay to criminalize breathing in public. And for a homeless person who has no place to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public.”
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Regulators are adding a new regulation to Title IX that “prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics in federally funded education programs …” said the Education Department fact sheet.
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Ukraine has certainly defeated Russia in the Battle of the Black Sea. Free Europe believes it can on land.
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