Her columns at the Times were garbage. I am sure that she had a point, but I was never able to excavate it from the dung heap that she called writing.
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get fed, educated, have medical care, and have hope for their future. Not just some kids, not just “our” kids, but all kids. The present needs our focus, not some past that we can’t hope to understand or recapture.
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We did not die on the battlefields of Gettysburg. It was not our blood that was spilled. We don’t even know those people and have very little in common with them culturally. Ancestry is a fun hobby, but it is not what shapes us. We live now! We need to take care of now. Make sure that kids
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I am tired of fighting past battles. I am tired of trying to legislate the past. Who cares? Who cares if you great great grandfather was a pioneer. Why do we spend time on this when kids go to bed hungry? Kids that are actually alive today! History can guide us, but it does not entitle us.
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Naïve to trust anyone.
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What is the RSQ? With and without the US? I think this chart would look the same if you replaced gun ownership with poverty rate. Just a guess. I think gun violence is hopelessness and availability of guns. We could try to go after the hopelessness issue?
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Honestly, it the secret service reports to him, then she is safer without them.
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We are all going to die some day. The positive side of that is that after you are dead, you will never have to get up early again. Silver lining!
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All these people he is trying to fire have something in common.
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Not many people use the word simulacra. Reminds of the college days reading Slavoj Zizek.