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  • Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart

    Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart0

    The tragic death of British Labour MP Jo Cox yesterday brought to light a powerful speech that she made in April asking the government to accept thousands of child refugees.  Mrs Cox, 41 and the mother of two young children, was murdered by a crazed loner wielding a gun and a knife while she was visiting her

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  • Jimmy Kimmel, George Washington, and Unhappiness in the U.S.

    Jimmy Kimmel, George Washington, and Unhappiness in the U.S.0

    Jimmy Kimmel is famous for showing the ignorance of Americans, and his Super Tuesday man-on-the-street interviews were no exception. Kimmel’s team went to California, a state which did not participate in Super Tuesday voting. Despite this fact, interviewees were quick to say they had fought large crowds to get into their polling places. One man

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  • JFK’s Assassination Speech Has a Message America Needs to Hear

    JFK’s Assassination Speech Has a Message America Needs to Hear0

    November 22 marks the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Although I wasn’t around at that time, I’m well aware that the occasion was as horrifying to my parents’ generation as September 11th was to mine. While reflecting on this anniversary, I came upon the remarks that President Kennedy was supposed to make that

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  • JFK—Accept Our Diverse World as It Is

    JFK—Accept Our Diverse World as It Is0

    Seven months after the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy, at American University, laid out his view on how the East-West struggle should be conducted to avoid a catastrophic war that could destroy us both. Kennedy’s message to Moscow and his fellow Americans: “If (the United States and the Soviet Union) cannot end now

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  • JFK Assassination Files Set for Release

    JFK Assassination Files Set for Release0

    It’s 2017, and conspiracy theorists around the world are eagerly awaiting the release of thousands of never seen before government documents related to the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Due out in late October, the new material will no doubt reignite interest in the JFK assassination and it is likely that a host of

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  • Jesse Jackson’s Surprising Harsh Words for Schools in 1977

    Jesse Jackson’s Surprising Harsh Words for Schools in 19770

    As someone who slides into the backend of the Gen-X generation, my view of the Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been basically the same. My charitable view of Jackson had been that he is a gifted speaker with a great deal of media savvy; that he cares deeply for people, but sometimes offers dubious solutions

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