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Senator Barack Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major American political party for president. Some people will exclusively vote for Obama because he is black while others will look right and vote for McCain because he is not.
Baracka Obama’s mother is from Kansas. Barack Obama’s father is [...]
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People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote—a very different thing. - Walter H. Judd
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Whatever happens, change is good. Not that any kind of change is all for the better, but the fact that we do not live in a static world is what’s good about it. There’s always room for improvement; always room to be better. There’s always chance to do things right if at [...]
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In the shadows of this picture on a park bench, “Caus” in the statement “Jews Caus War” is spelled wrong. Wars are declared and wars are fought, but not collectively caused by 18 million people who live on many lands not deemed as holy as those found in the Fertile Crescent.
As a Jew living in [...]
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I’ve found mine. Have you found yours?
If you want to be good at something, you have to to be obsessive. You have to do the thing all the time, and when you’re not doing it, you have to be thinking about doing it. Why do you think business people who make millions are so good [...]
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Andrew Sullivan writes:
To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the ether for a while, and to let others, as Montaigne did, pivot you toward relative truth.
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