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Apr.05.2013
I started thinking about gun control in earnest just after the politicos in New Your State jumped all over the issue when the poor children got massacred in Sandy Hook. I wrote three pieces about what I saw as pertinent issues, and I had a fourth ready to go, but I spilled a Budweiser into...
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Aug.20.2012
Have you ever been to a party, or other form of social gathering, drinking, talking, laughing, even dancing when all of a sudden, in a blink of an eye, the mood suddenly pauses, even swings to a deafening silence? The cause? Someone, somewhere, decided to say something inappropriate causing...
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Jul.29.2012
I went to write about my son's baptism in his baby book the other day, only to find there wasn't a page for baptism or christening. The closest it had was a page headed "Celebrating." In the blank for "the first holiday we celebrated after I was born" I had written Easter.
I love this baby book,...
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Jun.07.2012
A passing thought: among the many homages to Ray Bradbury being published today, a significant number of them mention “Fahrenheit 451” (1953).
As ChiTrib critic Julia Keller describes it, "Fahrenheit 451 is a cautionary tale about the insidious creep of censorship; its sinister evocation of a...
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Jan.28.2012
The past few days saw a couple of Jay-Joe humorous swipes that met with two distinct reactions: WTF and WTF. The potent acronym is, however, about duelling ideologies.
1. “WTF! How can anyone be so insensitive?” 2. “WTF! Can’t we just chill and grow up? It’s a joke.”
I think I know a few mean...
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Jan.10.2012
Using the five star system, I would give this anthology three stars, which is a so-so grade for me. There are some fine essays like Pico Iyer's reflection on the need to meditate, cut oneself off from the world, and reflect and Reshma Memon Yaqub's startling and informative account of...
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May.27.2011
As you have noticed, multiculturalism has failed in every Western society because many young men and women from Islamic backgrounds fail to embrace secular values and the culture of countries that host them. They find it difficult to identify with Western societies because the elite, schools,...
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May.27.2011
We know what happens when evil goes unchecked; we know what happens when we ignore its signs emerging from people who have desires to promote ideologies of hate. Genocide is the world’s most inhumane crime and I don’t know what goes on other people’s minds when they decide to kill someone because...
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May.23.2011
Since, the 11th September 2001, Western governments, the media, secret services, the armies and even the United Nations have put our nations in danger to a point where political correctness has become out of control. The problem with political correctness is when it is out control, it restrains our...
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May.10.2011
Sometimes, I wonder if leaders who have our best interests in mind. Sometimes, I worry if our leaders care about creating jobs for us in our respective home countries, instead of moving them to countries like: China, Pakistan, India etc. Our Western weak leaders claim that it’s about globalization...
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