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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?

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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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