
Sometimes the simplest conversations yield the most profound insights. I discovered that the other day when I stopped to chat with our UPS delivery man. Always friendly, the two of us had some good conversations in 2019 or 2020 BC (that’s Before COVID), but we hadn’t seen each other since the great plague. When I
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On Sunday, August 9, a five-year-old white child, Cannon Hinnant, was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding his bicycle in Wilson, North Carolina. His sisters, ages seven and eight, were playing alongside him when he was murdered. Alleged shooter Darius Sessoms, a 25-year-old African American, had apparently eaten supper with the Hinnant family the
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Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is both a pediatrician and a mother of three who wants to see kids back in school after the COVID-19 lockdown that shuttered classrooms in the spring and is on the cusp of doing so this fall across the country. “My children did not have a particularly great experience in the
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East Germany, formally known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), wanted to be a paradise for the common folk. It called itself a “workers’ and peasants’ state.” Its anthem, “Risen from Ruins,” brought to mind a phoenix rising gloriously from the ashes of World War II. From cradle to grave, the East German government cared
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Lately I’ve been watching Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, and deputy press secretary, Hogan Gidley, argue with Fox News anchors who insist that Trump is trailing Biden in the presidential race by at least seven points – perhaps more – and is likely to be whipped in all the battleground states. Fox News celebrities
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Ignorance. Incongruity. Irresponsibility. Ineptitude. Stupidity. Sometimes willed-stupidity. Pick any combination of the above words, apply them to some of our governors and mayors, and you’ll find the moniker fits them snug as a glove. Never in my entire life have I seen so many of America’s elected officials guilty of such a massive collective failure
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