Hope Ahead After a Year of Wretched Excess
At the Cliff, it’s hard to separate perspective from wishful thinking, but is there no way left to go but down? The President is...
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“Les Miserables” in DC: A Tacky Remake
Movieplexes are alive with crowds wallowing in the newest version of Victor Hugo’s old chestnut, sugar-coating human misery into...
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“Take Heaven, Take Peace, Take Joy”
I can’t gift-wrap this, but it’s the closest thing to a Christmas treasure I have to share. Decades ago, I published it twice in...
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World Ends Today, Details After This Message
The Mayan Calendar’s forecast will come and go, but there is another sense of finality in the air. After today, Americans take a...
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Blasts From My Past: A Former Shooter’s Mani...
During my teens and early twenties, I fired bullets at people who were shooting at me. It was not pleasant but, after V-E Day in...
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“Man of the Year” Tries to Disappear
Time’s newly anointed “Man of the Year” spends a news-conference hour asking adversaries to take him out of equations, telling...
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Gift-Wrapping the Same Old Nothing in DC
A week before Christmas and days after Newtown, Washington’s familiar faces are back with the old fiscal cliff reality show, along...
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Consoler-in-Chief Aims to Do More. Can He?
“In the coming weeks,” says the President at the Newtown Memorial, “I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my...
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Why Newtown Children Lost the Right to Life
How can a God who values embryos in the womb deliver 20 innocent young lives to the twitch of a trigger finger? One unblessed by...
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No Consolation for Catchers in the Rye
More than Columbine, fewer than Virginia Tech. Once again the national mind and heart are riddled with unspeakable statistics, this...
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