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  • The PC Crowd Goes After the Honored Dead

    The PC Crowd Goes After the Honored Dead0

    I recently picked up an old novel by author Maud Hart Lovelace entitled Emily of Deep Valley. Having read Lovelace’s celebrated Betsy-Tacy series for children and young adults a number of years ago, I expected a fun, carefree story that would offer a reprieve from heavy reading. But while the story was an easy read,

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  • Why All Good Social Justice Warriors Support Presumption of Innocence

    Why All Good Social Justice Warriors Support Presumption of Innocence0

    I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Paulus who was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until she fled the region. Now she works to save other women falsely accused of sorcery who are targets of torture and killing. She recognizes

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  • Meeting A Lost Soul In The Skies

    Meeting A Lost Soul In The Skies0

    On airplanes my druthers is to mind my own business. I don’t want to be rude, but I much prefer reading to chatting. And that’s precisely what I did for almost the entirety of a recent flight. Nothing out of the ordinary here. It’s my usual pattern. And it generally works, especially if one avoids small talk right from

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  • California Admits DMV Error Added Noncitizens to Voter Rolls

    California Admits DMV Error Added Noncitizens to Voter Rolls0

    An error at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles caused more than a thousand people, including some who were not U.S. citizens, to be incorrectly registered to vote, state officials said Monday. The DMV admitted that a “processing error” at agency field offices resulted in as many as 1,500 people being added to voter rolls between

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  • New California Law Will Require Kids’ Menus to List Water and Milk as Only Drink Options

    New California Law Will Require Kids’ Menus to List Water and Milk as Only Drink Options0

    California state lawmakers recently passed a bill forcing restaurants to offer specific beverages to children. Governor Jerry Brown signed the legislation, which passed easily in both the Senate and Assembly, at the end of September. Though SB 1192 allows customers to order other drinks upon request, the Golden State is now mandating that only unflavored

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  • Owning Your Guilt: Why Everyone Must Learn to Do It

    Owning Your Guilt: Why Everyone Must Learn to Do It0

    In The Great Divorce—the title comes from Milton’s Paradise Lost and refers to the separation of Heaven and Hell—C.S. Lewis paints an unforgettable picture of hell. This is not the Gehenna depicted in the Bible, in the homilies and writings of the Middle Ages, or in Dante and Milton, a sewer of flames, torture, devils

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