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Jeb Bush and The Pope
Posted on June 24, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Jeb Bush is the Pope Francis of the Republican field. Like Francis, Bush represents the establishment. For the 2016 hopeful, it’s the Republican establishment,...
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The Confederate Battle Flag Belongs In a Museum
Posted on June 23, 2015
It’s easy for me to say it. I am from Illinois. I was taught, growing up, that Abe Lincoln was America’s greatest President and that the Civil War was a...
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Et Tu, Lew?
Posted on June 19, 2015
The Department of the Treasury building is directly east of the White House. Standing in front of that stately building is a proud statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first and...
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Look of Evil
Posted on June 18, 2015
The vacant eyes. That’s what is so striking about the pictures of the latest mass murderer. Dylan Storm Roof, who coldly killed 9 people in an iconic African American Church...
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On the Coming Encyclical of Pope Francis on Climate Change
Posted on June 17, 2015
I like Jeb Bush and I want him to be President. But when he says about the Pope’s coming encyclical on climate change, “ I think religion ought to be...
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