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By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 18, 2010 5:12 PM
READ FULL ARTICLE »The god within
By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 18, 2010 2:36 PM
The very last thing I planned to do was blog about the recent GQ interview with Rielle Hunter. However, who could resist linking to a piece that cites both Hunter and G. K. Chesterton?
READ FULL ARTICLE »Continue to pray
By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 18, 2010 12:44 PM
From George Mueller's Answers to Prayer:
READ FULL ARTICLE »Is Crack Worse than Cocaine?
By: Billy Atwell|Published: March 18, 2010 11:04 AM
Many are working to bring the disparity in sentencing between cocaine and crack to an end. Pharmacologically they are almost the exact same substance. Personally, I think the disparity should be reduced a bit, but I also think that community-based treatment for non-violent offenders should be used on a much larger scale.
READ FULL ARTICLE »Not with a Bang but a Game Show
By: Roberto Rivera|Published: March 18, 2010 9:13 AM
When Stanley Milgram did this at Yale in 1961, he became a kind of pariah. Today, they become stars.
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By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 17, 2010 6:07 PM
READ FULL ARTICLE »War of the worlds
By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 17, 2010 5:00 PM
William Saletan of Slate observes that we're in a "war between the worlds": the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. The frightening thing is that some of the casualties in this war are not virtual casualties. They're real ones.
READ FULL ARTICLE »Forgive and forget . . . or just forget?
By: Kristine Steakley|Published: March 17, 2010 2:37 PM
From Andrew Rice’s book The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget:
The compromise [Uganda] had accepted, which the president [Yoweri Museveni] presented as reconciliation, was actually something more complex and less sturdy. It was as if, having found themselves unable to forgive, his people had concentrated on forgetting, and when they’d failed at forgetting, they’d chosen to believe what they wanted to believe. So long as nothing disturbed their conception of the past or exposed them to scrutiny, the nation could continue its halting procession along Museveni’s chosen path. To the president’s way of thinking, therefore, justice was a threat to progress, not because it promised verdicts and punishments, but because it forced people to remember.
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