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America Needs Rebuilding

I came to America in 1977 lured by its progressive attitude and open way of life. Yet now I feel it is time to leave precisely because those things are gone. America is not what it was. Nor will it be any time soon. I have learned that the image of America propagated around the […]

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And This is What They mean by Moral Values?

The deal is done. There are many who never thought that the Republicans who opposed George Bush’s effort to legalize torture was real: they argued that it was political window dressing. Some others thought that a great principle was being defended. Oh well. The administration won anyway. America now condones torture. How low, how desperately […]

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A Commentary on America

This is a sad time to be in America. Not because of anything others have done, but because of what Americans have done. The rot, you see, is home bred. Take this as an example: it is extraordinary that Senator Lindsey Graham, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, recently found it necessary to say: “It […]

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