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Oct.11.2009
STORYHEART SUNDAY UK BLOG - Stonehenge, President Obama and Marge Simpson It's been rather a strange week, with news from both sides of the pond causing some discussion.
First archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge....
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Oct.10.2009
Why am I writing about a Chairman, President & CEO of the largest financial institution in the world? Well, let me count the ways. Let me tell you how many lives he has destroyed because of his governing of this mega-corporation. Let me tell you how many mortages his company has foreclosed on...
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Oct.09.2009
"You're in a chatty mood these days," I called out to my upstairs neighbor, Hugh Lafferty, just minutes ago.
Hugh opened the ceiling door to the attic and looked down: "They want to ban bacon," he rumbled gloomily with an even more worried frown than usual.
Hugh's explanation...
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Oct.09.2009
No commentary today: hey, I'm just reporting here-- but when even the Associated Press seems a tad abashed, you have to wonder if all of this is maybe a bit too much, a little too early.
From the AP story:
"...The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of 'a new climate in international...
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Sep.26.2009
Dear President Obama:
I appreciated your Rosh HaShanah message to Jewish Americans last week, especially the line that read, "Let us resist prejudice, intolerance, and indifference in whatever forms they may take." You declared that on this occasion, "We rededicate ourselves to the...
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Sep.17.2009
By the time Jimmy Carter weighs in, with all due respect to the former President, home builder and Nobel Laureate, you can bet that's pretty much the end of the news cycle for that story.
When I watched Mr. Carter offer an opinion about South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson the other day, his face...
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Sep.10.2009
Last night I arrived home too late to catch President Obama's speech on healthcare reform. So as not to be influenced by other's reactions, I waited to speak with anyone until I could sit down this morning for the re-run courtesy of Youtube.
When President Obama spoke of those living with cancer--...
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Sep.07.2009
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Dr. Martin Luther King
In the Hebrew calendar, this is the time of t'shuvah, literally turning, but often translated as repentance. In...
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Aug.06.2009
During the campaign, we were ostracized for claiming that Barack Obama was a radical. Sure, he tried to tell us he was a middle-of-the-road, bipartisan player, but his actions and his past contradicted every one of his words. This pattern continues to this day. While he claims bi-partisanship, his...
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Jul.25.2009
What is the extent of our capacity for imaginative empathy? When is it easy to put oneself in the place of other, and when is the stretch too far to manage?
I don't have much trouble imagining how Henry Louis Gates felt earlier this week when he was arrested at the door of his own home.
I was...
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