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Our Expectations Are Making Us Miserable 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm offers a hilarious look at an ego on steroids. In each episode Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld), playing himself, tries to make himself more comfortable by making the world go his way. In the process he steps over other people while hoping they still see him as a nice guy. He
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Student Concocts Bogus Story of Attack by ‘Man in Trump Hat’0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
Via ABC News: A Muslim woman in Louisiana who told police she was attacked with a metal object and robbed of her headscarf and wallet by two men wearing Donald Trump clothing just hours after Trump was elected president admitted to police today that she made it up, Lafayette police told ABC News. “She made
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Is Another Civil War Really Possible?0
- History
- November 11, 2016
The past few presidential elections—and the partisan divisions they highlight—have had the effect of raising talk of “America’s next civil war.” There has been chatter in California and Oregon about the possibility of secession. Just yesterday, a CNN video was posted of a woman protesting Donald Trump’s election with the following rhetoric: “People had to
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How the Bible Won a WWI Battle 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
Several weeks ago, I made the claim that a culturally literate person knows the Bible. Because the Bible was a part of common culture for so many centuries, those who fail to familiarize themselves with its contents cut themselves off from deeper historical and cultural understanding. I was reminded today just how valuable that knowledge
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Is Trump the New Constantine?0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
Christians are unable to speak freely. Religious freedom is under attack. Society is materialistic and immoral. Western civilisation is facing huge threats, from within and without. And apparently the one powerful emerging leader is no saint. You’re thinking America 2016? No. Rome 312. The leader is Constantine, who is vying to become the Roman Emperor.
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How Democrats Lost America’s Working Class 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
I grew up in a blue-collar town in Wisconsin. Back home we make paper, lots of it. You can tell what we do by the smell of the town, a sulfuric scent that comes and never quite goes (the smell of money, people used to like to say). I grew up in a good Republican
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