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Theodore Dawes
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June 1, 2020
Here is your permission slip to go about your businessI'm 66 years old and I have significant respiratory issues. If I'm infected by Covid-19 there's a good chance that I'll die. But I'm writing today to give all of you who would like to get on with your lives permission to do so.
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June 9, 2016
Another academic hit job on conservatives falls apartDon't expect this news to receive even a tiny fraction of the publicity the original hit job got.
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May 15, 2015
Forks, Washington, and the Spotted OwlThe local economy is a certified disaster, a gift to the people of this remote village from the U.S. government.
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April 2, 2015
The Greatest Story Never ToldAccording to the same Barna Group poll, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) are convinced it's impossible to end extreme global poverty in the next 25 years.
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March 21, 2015
Africa and EntrepreneurshipA Senegalese entrepreneur provides the development blueprint for poverty's last stronghold.
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February 4, 2015
Confessions of a clueless member of the eliteLeft-wing elites believe they are friends of the working class. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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May 9, 2014
The U.S. Postal Service: Junk in, junk outWhat would they do with all those shiny little trucks?
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September 21, 2013
The New York Times is obsessed with the Catholic ChurchThe Catholic Church isn't obsessed with gays, abortion, and birth control -- The New York Times is.
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July 27, 2012
That old gray lady, she ain't what she used to beThe New York Times now allows allows Obama and Romney representatives to fine-tune their quotes.
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July 26, 2012
Have Your Way with the Local NewspaperAs a newspaper reporter, I often find myself interacting with people who often interact with newspaper reporters. I'm often surprised at how bad they are at it. Especially the Republicans.
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April 8, 2012
Bigotry's Permanent AppealWhen I was a kid in the '50s and '60s, the vilest racial epithets were casually tossed about. But racism wasn't always, or even mostly, manifested in the way you've seen it depicted in popular literature and in the movies.
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April 3, 2012
The many faces of AARPMy wife just turned 50, so she recently experienced that least favorite American rite of passage: the arrival of the dreaded solicitation letter from AARP.
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April 2, 2012
Conservatives and ScienceA new study just released by a sociologist at the University of North Carolina serves as a perfect example of the intellectual dishonesty that has led educated conservatives to lose their faith in the scientific community.
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March 30, 2012
Why I Am a ReporterI'm 58 years old, and I'm a reporter at a small-town newspaper. The question naturally arises: how did I get myself into this fix?
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July 15, 2010
For the love of God, please stop helping us!Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama all went for McCain. Now comes the retribution, in the form of an economy-destroying ban on deep-water oil well drilling.
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July 6, 2010
Feds to take another try at banning deep water drillingWhile helping a Soros sponsored drilling project backed by Brazil.
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June 12, 2010
Putting the Watchdogs on the PayrollMassive subsidies for the print press proposed by federal bureaucrats. They're not kidding.
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June 12, 2010
What we have here is a failure to recognize ironySuggesting rumors of leftist bias are at the very least overblown