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I wish I found these sooner, but they’re good and I want to share.

First, is Will Wilkinson from the Economist (or, at least, I’m told he’s running that blog now):

[Chris Hayes is] not wrong about that. Calling “hero” everyone killed in war, no matter the circumstances ( Read more... )

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There’s been a lot of hullabaloo over the weekend about comments that liberal commentator Chris Hayes made on MSNBC regarding veterans, namely that he is “uncomfortable” calling them “heroes:”



If you want the text (which is what I’ve been using):

“Why do I feel so ( Read more... )

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As I wrote in one of my earliest blog posts (to which I never supplied the promised sequel), I was raised in the United Methodist Church. I never fully bought into it-even as a child, I considered myself an “agnostic Methodist” of sorts-but I do remember it quite fondly ( Read more... )

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Steven Chapman is one of my favorite syndicated columnists. He’s about as centrist as they come, and it’s really refreshing to find someone who is not married to a certain ideology, just to the truth. (Even if that ideology was libertarianism.)

He has a great column that ( Read more... )