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R.B. Parrish
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August 16, 2017
I've changed my mind about the statuesI used not to care whether the Confederate memorials remained or were removed. In Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, where the footprints of stars are embedded in concrete, those of forgotten stars of yesteryear are sometimes removed to...
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March 31, 2017
Liberal FantasylandsI knew of a woman who was a member of a Trotskyite splinter group. She was a communist, but not of the Moscow variety. She shared that distinction with a select few, who themselves were later divided and then splintered into factions, in ...
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June 3, 2015
We Don't Expect Politicians to be HonestWhen we read about the accumulated wealth of our leaders most of us simply shrug. Accumulated wealth after a lifetime spent in public service is now taken as a given. I think of the Hasterts, the Pelosis ($34 million or so), Harry Reid ($10 mill...
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June 3, 2015
We don't expect our politicians to be honestWhen we read about the accumulated wealth of our leaders most of us simply shrug. Accumulated wealth after a lifetime spent in public service is now taken as a given. I think of the Hasterts, the Pelosis ($34 million or so) ); Ted Stevens,...
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December 31, 2014
Guilty until Proven GuiltyAncient Israel had a Day of Atonement, in which the sins of the nation were transferred to the scapegoat: "And they made a ramp for it [the scapegoat] on account of [the pilgrims] because these used to yank at its hair, and cry out to...
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December 14, 2014
Apology needed in UVa rape hoax scandalThe first thing President Teresa Sullivan of the University of Virginia needs to do in the wake of what now appears to be a faux rape scandal is to apologize to the victims – that is, to the members of Phi Kappa Psi, who have been vilified, for...
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December 9, 2014
What's Wrong With Our University Presidents?Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, said all the right things when fraternity members at her school were accused of gang rape: she followed the PC playbook and nobody could fault her for missing her lines. She automatically assu...
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November 21, 2014
Scottsboro, Ferguson, and Judge HortonIn 1931 nine Black young men were charged with raping two white women, on a train which eventually stopped in Scottsboro, Alabama. The opinion of Southern white society was that the guilt of the nine men was palpable. Whites . . . co...
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February 24, 2014
When Black Americans Become Good GermansAfrican-Americans were the richest people ever to come to these shores. They were billionaires -- in the realm of the soul. Ever since then we have sung the harmonies forged by slaves in the crucible of their experience. We remember an...
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November 5, 2013
Live Not By LiesWords kill. They don't kill just people, they kill ideas, and replace them with other ideas. The media today has been effectively wiping clean the slate of our national heritage, and creating a new narrative in its place. This is the culture by which...
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October 11, 2013
Duke Lacrosse Case Reveals the Judicial System's FlawsThe Supreme Court this week refused to hear an appeal from the Duke lacrosse players stemming from the false accusations of rape in Durham in 2006. Effectively, that ends their civil rights lawsuit, and precludes their ever having a day in court in w...
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July 28, 2013
The Diversity ShieldIn Stalin's Russia some Orthodox monks were imprisoned and ordered to wear prisoners' numbers. They refused. "A child of God does not allow himself to be reduced to a number. Each one is a jewel apart." They were punished, but they would not bend to ...
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July 14, 2013
The Apostasy of the Black ChurchLet me tell you the story of three churches. In China, the church exists under persecution. ChinaAid's report for 2012 tallied an increase in the "number of arrest(s), sentencing to labor camps, short term detentions, rape and torture in police custo...
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December 23, 2012
What does Newsweek Know About Jesus?For its Dec. 10, 2012 edition, Newsweek featured a story, "What Do We Really Know About Jesus?" A better title might have been, "What does Newsweek know about Jesus?" The gist of the article is that the gospels are full of historical errors; yet neve...
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May 4, 2012
The Supreme Court Again Upholds Your Right to Be Framed"A prosecutor ... may receive absolute immunity from suit for acts violating the Constitution in order to advance important societal values." -Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, 2009 After the Civil War, Congress passed several civil rights laws, i...
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March 7, 2012
Those 'Rogue' ProsecutorsTracey Cline was removed from the position of district attorney for Durham County this week. She thus follows in the path of her predecessor, Michael Nifong, who was similarly forced out. But neither was removed before a great deal of dam...
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February 27, 2012
So Now It's the Lacrosse MurderThe American public loves stories. It loves stories better than explicated truth, because stories entertain better. Ask Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Ask the Hofstra lads. And when the media gets something wrong, don't expect apologies or hand-wringi...
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November 27, 2011
Role playing 'America'OK, here are the rules. Some of you have forgotten or never read them in the first place, and some of you need a refresher. So here they are again:Certain Judaeo-Christian concepts and limitations apply.* * (You are not called upon to believe these c...
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November 12, 2011
Higher Education's Transparency ProblemNobody knows at present exactly what happened at Penn State -- but it would come as no surprise if a major university, when informed that it had the makings of a scandal affecting its campus, decided to cover the matter up rather than report eve...
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November 6, 2011
Noble InjusticeSomething strange happened along the road to Utopia: we ditched the supremacy of individual rights in favor of "the greatest good for the greatest number." One manifestation of this was affirmative action. In Regents of the University of Califo...
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January 8, 2011
Our Flawed Justice SystemMost of you probably remember the Duke lacrosse case from a few years back. For those of you who do not, or whose memories are unclear, let me bring you up to speed.Here we had a case in which there was no crime, but a DA could manufacture...