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Why Gun Legislation Does Not Matter
Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, plenty of Facebook friends have weighed in on the need for gun control or gun safety laws. Some have been well-reasoned. Most have been incendiary and polarizing. Against them and equally polarizing have been defenders of the second amendment, most adamantly refusing to admit a need for any kind…
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More on Cordoba House and Religious Freedom
Read and comment on my blog. Here is Newt Gingrich’s take on the Cordoba House, and here is a medieval historian’s response. The idea of reciprocity sounds great. Muslims can worship freely in America if and only if Christians can worship freely in Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia. However, reciprocity is fundamentally unAmerican. It…
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No More ‘C’ At The ‘Y’
Read and comment on my blog. The New York Times carried a story this morning that the YMCA is changing its name formally to just the Y. While the article cites several good reasons for doing so, I can’t help feeling a little sadness at seeing yet another venerable institution purge itself of references to…
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