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Ignorance Is the Enemy of Children

Marci Hamilton gives us an op-ed about the shocking statistics of child abuse and progress being made in her home state of Pennsylvania. No one wants to think about child sex abuse if they don’t have...

Marci A. Hamilton | 22 May 2008

Please Excuse the Slowdown

I’m getting married, as I alluded earlier, and will be away for a couple weeks. Your comments will be moderated by my colleague Laura, and there will be some posting, but much more sporadic than...

21 May 2008

Truth Comes With a Price

Marci Hamilton points us to a great Op Ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: Just imagine how tough it must be for an elected official in Harrisburg to stand up and shield sexual predators and church...

20 May 2008

Obama and Bush Sr.

What will be the Bush legacy in the next US presidency? According to policy experts Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh, the next president will be bound by history to follow a foreign policy very close to...

Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch | 19 May 2008

BEA Is Coming!

Book Expo America is Coming to Los Angeles Will you be there? I won’t, but Cambridge will! I went last year and had a great time, but this year I’ll begetting married instead, so I think that’s...

16 May 2008

New York Moves to Reform SOLs

View Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey’s announcement here. According to the site, “Assemblywoman Markey’s resolution focuses attention on her bill to extend state’s statue of limitations...

14 May 2008

Vows of Silence: The Cult Within

Highly regarded author Jason Berry has produced a remarkable documentary based on the book, Vows of Silence, which he co-authored with Gerard Renner. This one-hour film tells the story of the Vatican’s...

Marci A. Hamilton | 13 May 2008

What’s with the Panic Over Russia?

The US sometimes just can’t get Russia. And that’s nothing new. For decades, through propaganda, pressure, and direct religious missionary work, Americans tried to persuade Russians that they...

David Foglesong | 12 May 2008

Anchor Brewery Welcomes Bamforth

I love the Anchor Brewing Co.’s beer. I love it. I love Anchor Steam, I love their Christmas beer on the less “piney” years, I love Old Foghorn, and I really love the rye and gin they’ve...

Charles Bamforth | 9 May 2008

The Story Behind the Story of Polygamy in the West

According to the New York Times front page story today, the Texas raid on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, “rattles other polygamists.” Apparently, FLDS members outside Texas are poring over the...

Marci A. Hamilton | 8 May 2008

Great Post on Wine and Beer

I dig this guy’s (well, assuming gender from the moniker Saucyman) writing. From SAUCYMAN: “My bias leans towards beer; wine has always remained a bit of a mystery to me. Beer is easy, heuristic;...

7 May 2008

FDLS Arguments Will Not Hold Up

From today’s Fort Worth Star Telegram When Texas authorities entered the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch, one of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compounds, on April 3, they did so using...

Marci A. Hamilton | 6 May 2008