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Resorting to Power Reflects Failure of Leadership
As Dana Milbank pointed out in Wednesday’s Post, the administration needs to come clean with the facts on which it is basing a decision to intervene unilaterally in Syria. This momentous decision should not be made in sealed rooms by … Continue reading
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Tagged consensus, constitution, current affairs, current-events, dogma, freedom, international affairs, leadership, Middle East, military power, politics, power, Syria, terror, unilateral action, United Nations, war
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Seeking Unbound Lives
Republicans are frantically seeking someone to blame for their completely predictable election defeat last week. But all their carping and evasion hasn’t yet revealed the most obvious explanation. The United States in 2012 moved closer to its Founders’ vision of … Continue reading
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Tagged competitiveness, current-events, diversity, dogma, election, election results, freedom, ideology, immigration policy, leadership, politics, presidency, presidential election
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Free Speech Can’t Live with Lies
According to scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, the bi-partisan duo who recently published It’s Even Worse than It Looks, “Viral emails and word-of-mouth campaigns are expanding sharply, mostly aimed at false facts about political adversaries”(p. 66). Last November, the … Continue reading
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Tagged current-events, election, free speech, freedom, Internet lies, leadership, politics, presidential election, truth, viral emails, voter rights, voting rights
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High Streams: Sorting fact from belief 