Minding Your Pronouns
It was the early 1990s and I had just finished a lecture to a group of educators on the teaching [...]
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02, 2013
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02, 2013
The Importance Of Making Distinctions
Something odd has been going on in public discourse. More and more commentators are ignoring important and in some cases [...]
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02, 2013
The Queen Of Chutzpah?
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word for which there is no English equivalent. The dictionary definition is “shameless audacity or impudence.” But [...]
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01, 2013
Parish Hopping
Parish hopping is defined as moving from parish to parish in the hope of finding the “right” one. It is [...]
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01, 2013
Why Gun Control Is Not The Solution
You won’t learn it from mainstream media coverage, but the idea that tighter gun control will cure the nation’s epidemic [...]
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01, 2013
Ending Legislative Gobbledygook
I recently commented on the absurdity of having members of Congress vote on bills they have not had time to read. This [...]
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01, 2013
Government To The Rescue
Senator Rand Paul was recently on a TV news show lamenting the circumstances surrounding the bill that supposedly saved America [...]
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01, 2013
Death By Ignorance
Before the 2012 election two interviewers approached potential voters with questions slyly filled with false information. The answers revealed a [...]
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12, 2012
Self-Congratulation And Christmas
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, people sent friends and family Christmas cards with personal messages. Not [...]
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12, 2012
Two Claims Of Infallibility
This essay continues the discussion begun in “Theological Confusion” and published in this journal December 13, 2012 In 1870 Vatican One proclaimed [...]