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PIE-THROWING (INCLUDING TOFU) IS NOT A VIRTUE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

August 20, 2021 at 1:24 p.m.

I wish people would stop throwing things at Dan Glickman. As secretary of agriculture, he may not be well-known outside agricultural circles but Glickman is becoming widely known as the...

WAS HE OR WASN’T HE?

August 20, 2021 at 9:55 p.m.

Abraham Lincoln was the humbly born, self-educated "Honest Abe," the Great Emancipator who freed the slaves in America. Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist, who said whatever the crowd wanted...

USEFUL ADVICE FOR A LIFETIME

August 20, 2021 at 9:48 p.m.

It is graduation time again, a time when innumerable commencement speakers across the land make the mistake of thinking that this crowd really came to hear them. Still, commencement speeches...

WHEN BRIGHT KIDS SHOW DIM ETHICS

August 20, 2021 at 5:26 p.m.

Like many Americans, I am shocked and dismayed by the moral ignorance of some young people today. Take, for example, the recent case of Onel De Guzman. He's the 23-year-old...

BLAMING FEMINISTS FOR BOYS’ PROBLEMS

August 20, 2021 at 12:36 p.m.

Once I thought you could raise boys and girls in a pretty-much gender-free environment. Then I became a parent. It didn't take long for my son, helped along by the...

POSTCARDS FROM AN UGLY PERIOD

August 20, 2021 at 7:36 p.m.

Beneath our thin veneer of civility, an unspeakable barbarism bubbles, waiting to burst like lava through the surface of our sensibilities. Such are the thoughts that crossed my mind as...

OLD WORDS STILL HAUNTING FARRAKHAN

August 20, 2021 at 9:51 p.m.

Defenders of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan like to dismiss his occasional cheap shots against various ethnic groups as "just words." As one who uses words for a living,...

GIULIANI’S MARITAL WOES BEING TAKEN IN STRIDE

August 20, 2021 at 8:59 p.m.

The biggest mystery of the latest scandal to hit New York politics is why so few New Yorkers are scandalized by it. Mayor and U.S. senatorial candidate Rudolph Giuliani, who...

`LOVE BUG’ ENVY AND OTHER NOT-SO-WONDERFUL WOES ON THEWEB

August 20, 2021 at 1:29 p.m.

'Tis spring, a time when a young computer hacker's fancy has turned to thoughts of love. As a result--Whammo!--hundreds of thousands of computers around the world have been bollixed up...

INS ABUSE TACTICS WHEN IT’S TIME TO GO HOME

August 20, 2021 at 9:58 p.m.

Armed immigration officers stormed into the house in the early morning darkness. They crashed into a bedroom and swept a young man away into custody. Afterwards, questions were raised. Was...

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