On August 28, lawyers representing accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse issued a statement asserting that the 17-year-old “was protecting life and community because his state and local government failed” and that he “was viciously attacked by mob and fearing for his life exercised his God-given and constitutional right to self-defense” when he shot three protestors on the
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We are all different and all unique, and I try to treat everybody as an individual rather than stereotyping them as belonging to some group. I do my best to treat everyone with the same respect I’d like them to extend to me. But I confess to being un-woke and not understanding the logic behind
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States across the country are experimenting with a mass switch to mail-in elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it wise for states to make such a big change, especially in light of messy voter rolls around the country? What I was sent earlier this month by election officials in Alameda County, California,
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This week marks a momentous anniversary for the United States. On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set off on the voyage which launched the birth of a new nation. Once upon a time, such an anniversary would have been greeted with pomp and circumstance. As Mark David Hall notes in his Chronicles article, “The 1620
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My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)
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It’s time to talk about Jacob Blake and policing reform. No, I mean the other half of that conversation. The part where we ask what Jacob Blake did wrong and why it matters. We cannot have meaningful policing reform if we pretend that law enforcement officers do not see our actions as civilians from a
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