Fair Exposure
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By Henry Meyerding on May 18, 2013 - 9:07:58 AM
UNITED STATES—The right-wing pundits are all up in arms about the Internal Revenue Service targeting right-wing groups, but they never cry foul when the IRS or FBI target left-wing groups.
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Marathon Of Hate
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 21, 2013 - 7:47:53 AM
UNITED STATES—To all those affected by the bombings in
Boston, my sincerest sympathy, and hope for a better future. Once again, we have the specter of a horrible act of hate.
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Orthodoxy
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By Henry Meyerding on Mar 14, 2013 - 7:41:23 PM
UNITED STATES—As the Roman Catholic Church convened its cardinals to select a new Pope, some wanted a younger more progressive Pope, while others wished for an old wise man.
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Abstinence Of Malice
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By Henry Meyerding on Mar 8, 2013 - 3:29:50 AM
UNITED STATES—House Republicans are seeking $550 million dollars in funding for Abstinence Education for Teenagers. We live in a time when all kinds of necessary programs that actually work are being cut.
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Pipeline
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 24, 2013 - 10:31:14 AM
UNITED STATES—Ask a random selection of people on the street: “What is the Keystone (XL) Pipeline?” Most people won’t know, which is a shame, because it is a very important issue.
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Good Service
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 9, 2013 - 1:34:51 PM
UNITED STATES—What ever happened to good service? Merchants, businessmen, and even government offices used to devote a great deal of time and effort to servicing their customers better. Not anymore.
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PC Liberty
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By Henry Meyerding on Jan 26, 2013 - 6:34:23 PM
UNITED STATES—Recently, two prominent British journalists, Julie Burchill and Suzanne Moore, became embroiled in a PC firestorm because of a comment Suzanne made about transsexual people.
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Regressive Catholic Church
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By Henry Meyerding on Jan 3, 2013 - 3:59:56 PM
UNITED STATES—There are both progressive and regressive elements in the Catholic Church. For most of the 20th century, the progressive elements were ascendant.
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Disinclusion
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 14, 2012 - 4:44:56 PM
UNITED STATES—Civil rights is a difficult legal concept for many people. I am not sure why this is true, but it must be true because there’s a considerable amount of contention around civil rights.
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Clouded Crystal
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 2, 2012 - 5:00:47 PM
UNITED STATES—Ever notice how people who are anti-gay never admit to prejudice, but make dire predictions about the consequence of not persecuting LGBTQ people?
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Newslessness
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By Henry Meyerding on Nov 1, 2012 - 12:43:07 PM
UNITED STATES—What is lacking from our mass media news is diversity of opinion. There are many reasons for this. We need to try to correct this problem, before it gets even worse.
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Futureism
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By Henry Meyerding on Oct 12, 2012 - 11:07:07 AM
UNITED STATES—One of the most interesting aspects of science fiction, particularly old science fiction, is the things that the predictions about the future say about the periods of the recent past.
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Gunned Down
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By Henry Meyerding on Aug 15, 2012 - 8:53:23 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—We live in a culture of violence. And then we are surprised when events like those in the movie theater in Colorado erupt onto the TV screen.
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Divide and Conquer
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By Henry Meyerding on Aug 15, 2012 - 8:18:08 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—With all the divisions and problems in the world today, why is it more difficult to come together to find equitable, workable solutions? The Story of Change offers a way to originate meaningful change.
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Political Religion
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 7, 2012 - 2:10:49 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—The Roman Catholic Cardinal of Maryland has issued an order requiring the reading of a political position statement he authored, in every Roman Catholic Church in that state.
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Playing To Prejudice
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 12, 2012 - 12:32:17 PM
LOS ANGELES—Are there any circumstances that justify turning a national debate into an international boycott? I suppose I can think of a couple, but gay marriage isn’t one of them.
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Not Just Marriage
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 7, 2012 - 3:27:09 PM
LOS ANGELES—There has recently been a media firestorm surrounding the publication of startling internal documents from the National Organization for Marriage.
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Church Republicans
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 27, 2012 - 5:38:26 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—Does anyone else find it awfully convenient that the Catholic Church has become an active partner in Conservative Republican causes just after the pedophile priest scandals?
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Obsolete People
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 9, 2012 - 5:36:30 PM
LOS ANGELES— In the past two centuries, humankind has seen an unprecedented acceleration in technological, social and economic change. At the same time, people have not really changed very much at all.
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The Biblical State
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 5, 2012 - 3:08:52 PM
PENNSYLVANIA—On January 23, 2012, the Pennsylvania State Legislature passed H.R. 535, which declared 2012 to be "The Year of the Bible." What ever happened to the First Amendment to the Constitution?
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Turnabout Propaganda
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 24, 2011 - 2:47:20 PM
LOS ANGELES—Education is about the hearts and minds of our children. The problem is that we have lots of people who have widely varying/hostile opinions contesting for space in the educational hierarchy.
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Changeless Change
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 4, 2011 - 9:16:12 PM
LOS ANGELES—People seem to think today that the way things are is the way they have always been. This is a comforting notion for those people who want there to be no possibility for real, meaningful change.
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