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The Bush-McCain challenge: can you really tell them apart?

I’m aware that McCain is different than Bush on a few issues.  But these are areas in which McCain has stumbled over a very low bar, indeed.  For instance, McCain has the intellectual brilliance to admit that we are terribly screwing up our environment and that energy is an issue that needs attention.   These are [...]

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Where pants rightfully belong

Pants, by definition, are: an outer garment covering the body from the waist to the ankle, with a separate part for each leg. One cannot have one pant, although I suppose if one has only one leg and removes the extra part, one might have a pant? My dashboard dictionary doesn’t suppose, it just defines, [...]

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The danger of focusing on human differences

Bill Clinton’s Commencement Speech at Harvard - June 6, 2007
The former President explained much societal dysfunction when he asked a simple question:  Should we focus on what human beings have in common or should we obsess about their minor differences? 
The outcome of this simple choice determines innumerable personal and political agendas.  To the extent that we [...]