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Gun Rights Take Away Freedom
A recent New York Times column addressed what I have long asserted as the most powerful psychological aspect of the gun issue in America.
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If at First You Don’t Succeed . . .
Few have ever wanted a job as much as Kevin McCarthy wants to be Speaker of the House. If he weren’t such a reprehensible hypocrite, I’d feel sorry him. Imagine any other person seeking any other leadership position, sending a…
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A Big Lie is Breaking Education
(This long post is an edited excerpt from my 2016 book. I continue to be frustrated by the resistance to progressive -enlightened – education. I hope the excerpt will offer a helpful perspective to those who care about children and…
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Encountering the Divine in Colorado
Precisely 56 years ago this week, I visited Colorado for the first time. It was not a vacation trip. I first met Willie Vance in 1966. We had been drafted and were sworn in on September 19th in Cleveland, Ohio.…
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Because They Need It
“Because they need it.” – Whitney Tilson Tilson is a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who is a major supporter of education “reform,” particularly the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) chain. “Because they need it,” was Tilson’s unguarded response to a…
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Poison Ivy
For months, she struggled silently with a sense of worthlessness. She had panic attacks that left her trembling. Nightmares that made her cry. She’d told only a handful of friends about the sexual assault she endured while she was home…
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Affirmative Action Debate is Poppycock
With apologies for being quite blunt . . . the debate about affirmative action is almost entirely poppycock. Last week the Supremes heard arguments in a duo of cases challenging affirmative action (AA) in college admissions. Based on oral arguments,…
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Guns, Guns, Everywhere
“Eventually all nations will have nuclear weapons or no one will have them.” This is a slightly paraphrased quote from my dear friend the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Bill, as he was known to all, was…
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Blood on Their Hands
It was well past midnight. I awoke with a start as a silhouette appeared in my dorm room doorway. My heart pounded as a person approached, knelt at my bed and whispered, “Help me.” The person was a blond,…
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2022 Election Guide
Every year, Yellow Scene Magazine publishes an exhaustive Election Guide. Because we are “old-school” and still believe journalism is important, we do not allow email interviews and require a 15-minute call with each candidate. They are all asked the same…
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