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Continue reading →: Poisoned by a dangerous cult
On a flight from Detroit to San Diego before the November midterm elections, I sat silently while the woman sitting across from me was poisoned. Allow me to explain. I have a habit on long flights in larger jets that have built-in TV screens in every seat to keep mine…
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Continue reading →: The Road to Extinction is lined with ignorance and selfishness
We are living a lie. Two of them, actually. One is a chronic self-deception that we can see every day as we go about our lives working, shopping, playing. The other is a less tangible — but deadly — self-delusion. Some of us sense where these lies will take us,…
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Continue reading →: How would you fill in the blanks?
As I dropped off a friend at his home recently, I noticed two women nearby. They were holding hands. One woman had her eyes closed and appeared to be praying. The other woman occasionally opened her eyes but listened intently. From the vantage point of my car about 20 feet…
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Continue reading →: GOP delegation blasted for stoking fear and hatred at southern border
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) criticized the “rhetoric of fear and hatred” used Monday by Rep. John Katko (R-NY) and other GOP House members at a media event at the southern border in El Paso. Rep. Escobar said during a virtual press conference that she had invited House minority leader…
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The rewarding encounters of a U.S. Census enumerator
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Continue reading →: The rewarding encounters of a U.S. Census enumeratorYesterday I ended my six-week stint as an enumerator with the U.S. Census Bureau, going door-to-door as part of the constitutionally mandated decennial effort to track our population. Despite some frustrations with the technology and with ongoing uncertainty over the timetable of our work (as it’s yet another democratic institution…
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Continue reading →: Unskilled?
You try wielding a roofing shovel and a nail gun in the blazing sun, laying down tar paper and shingles 20 or 30 feet off the ground on a steep pitch.
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Continue reading →: ‘We should help our own first’
Originally posted on Sense of Decency: The vacant former Majestic theater in downtown Brownsville, Texas. By JIM McKEEVER I spent the last two weeks of May at the US-Mexico border in Texas, volunteering with the humanitarian organization Team Brownsville, welcoming asylum seekers. In those two weeks, we welcomed hundreds of…
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Continue reading →: Flying the flag … for whom?
Originally posted on Sense of Decency: A woman looks through the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, toward the United States. Photo © Bill McLaughlin 2019. By JIM McKEEVER The blue and yellow flags of Ukraine that flew so proudly in our communities last year have faded. Many have disappeared from…
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Continue reading →: Tales from the Precipice
Originally posted on Sense of Decency: “Face to Face: Portraits from the Precipice” by Bill McLaughlin will be on exhibit at the Earlville Opera House art gallery, Earlville, NY, from May 6 through June 24. Editor’s note: Five additional portraits are below McLaughlin’s essay. By BILL McLAUGHLIN Many years ago…
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