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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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Democracy Mark Veins
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Ignorance Party Political
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Believe Media Trust
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

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