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Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty
As Christmas is celebrated in Incarceration Nation, it’s worth remembering certain things about the two figures who dominate this holiday.
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Geneva — Johannine and Lukan
I try to maintain a regular schedule of Wednesday publication, but there are times, as for example when I find myself climbing into an airplane in Geneva midmorning of a Wednesday, when sticking to schedule would be more in the genre of electronic athleticism than of journalistic virtue.
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And Then There Is …
There is a seemingly endless list of leaders who chose war — Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler — to name a very few.
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The Fading Humanities
It’s not Iran, nor health care, nor immigration, nor even the loss of liberty in the name of security — it’s none of these — and yet, it is as worrisome an issue as any of the others, maybe more so.
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A 55-Year-Old Woodworking Project
It started out a long time ago in shop class at Charles Brantley Aycock Junior High School in Greensboro.
