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Lies And Moral Values

Arnold Hamilton - May 12, 2014 0

BY SHARON MARTIN A teacher friend and I were discussing the upcoming elections. Even among teacher types, too many fail to do their homework. They...

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Bad Old Days: How Lewinsky Deserves To Be Remembered

Arnold Hamilton - May 12, 2014 0

BY JOE CONASON Monica Lewinsky must be satisfied to learn that with a few stylish photographs and a few innocuous paragraphs, she can still discombobulate Maureen Dowd, Lynne Cheney and a swarm of demented figures in American politics and media. Few could resist the chance to reminisce about the tapes, the blue dress, the cigars, […]

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Campus Rape Victims Should Be Dialing 911

Arnold Hamilton - May 8, 2014 0

BY FROMA HARROP If a 19-year-old high-school dropout raped by her ex-boyfriend wants justice, she calls the police. The same should apply to a 19-year-old college freshman similarly attacked by another student. But it doesn’t apply nearly enough. Colleges have let themselves become arbiters of violent crime. They have no business being in that business. […]

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GOP’s False Narrative

Arnold Hamilton - May 8, 2014 0

BY NATHAN COSBY Recently there has been much talk about whether the U.S. is still a democracy or whether we have shifted to being an...

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Grotesque

Arnold Hamilton - May 7, 2014 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s what the Simon Wiesenthal Center called the assignment given to eighth-grade students in Rialto, CA, to research and write an argumentative essay about whether the Holocaust actually happened or was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.” Who came up with this assignment? Apparently, it was […]