Tag: social justice
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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October 05, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
The perky lady with the video camera made her way around the tables at the high school reunion. She explained that she was making a YouTube video.
“What would you like to say to the kids in . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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May 12, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
On Saturday night, Rick Warren, pastor and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life , sat down with Barak Obama and John McCain at his megachurch in California and asked them some tough questions. . . .
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September 01, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
Over the last few years, this last holiday of summer has all but faded away. While banks and government offices close, fewer and fewer laborers find themselves able to celebrate.
The local school . . .
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November 17, 2008 05:32 PM EST --
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore last week, one of the discussions centered on the fact that in spite of their efforts to defeat him, a clear majority of Americans . . .
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February 09, 2009 06:27 PM EST --
Once upon a time, Americans used to receive their IRS W-2 forms in January. The typical taxpayer then sat down with a form 1040 and a pencil and got to work. An hour or so later, voilà, his . . .
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February 16, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
It wasn't advertised, but congress took the first step toward health care reform on Friday. The economic stimulus package includes $700 million for comparative effectiveness research (CE). This amount . . .
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March 09, 2009 06:24 PM EDT --
Seth Myers made a joke on Saturday Night Live this week about banks spending half of the $700 billion stimulus bill to build the world's biggest toilet, which they would then use to flush . . .
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March 23, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
The world watched Pope Benedict XVI visit Africa this week. The news was predictable if not exciting. He spoke on the human condition, the plight of women and girls, and public health. That's right: . . .
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April 15, 2009 11:04 PM EDT --
I just signed on to Gather and discovered that there are some people who think that they should get to live in this country and not pay taxes. This infuriates me for several reasons.
Paying your taxes . . .
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May 04, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
Xiu Ping Jiang is a mentally ill Chinese woman. She has spent the last year in an immigration jail in Florida. Because detainees in deportation cases have no right to attorneys, Xiu has no help when . . .
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August 10, 2009 06:45 PM EDT --
People in the United States used to be able to disagree civilly. And then came the neoconservative pundits. Now, it seems, the only thing they know how to do is scream.
Legislators home for summer . . .
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August 17, 2009 06:06 PM EDT --
Some say that religion is the human answer to the cognitive dissonance that arises from realizing that humans die. Because religion lets people believe life goes on after death, it gives life meaning. . . .
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August 24, 2009 06:38 PM EDT --
The American people are making heavy going of the battle to change the health care system. Spurred on by nervous health care industry leaders, they work against their own interests. Americans over 65, . . .
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September 21, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
“Ms. Hart? This is Catherine at Dr. X’s office. I’m calling to tell you that your health insurance will no longer pay for your allergy drops. If you want to pay for them, they are two-forty . . .
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