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  • Editorial – Just War0

    History, as I remember it taught in my high school days, used to be little more than a recitation of wars and battles, with dates attached. I had thought those days long gone, with a more informed recognition of the complexity of human affairs enriching our contemporary view of events. But it seems we are

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  • Editorial – God, Country, and the Justices0

    In the public library with my children recently I spotted a DVD version of Gods and Generals. I've long had an interest in history—it was for a time my major in college—and the Civil War was an area I particularly concentrated on. Filmmakers have a tendency to rewrite history, but I couldn't resist checking out

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  • Editorial – For Such a Time as This0

    Since 9/11 2001 we have each been caught up in the sense of crisis, a world in jeopardy, and the forces of history turning once again. Here in North America we live in the knowledge that our towers of invulnerability have fallen…they were always vulnerable, but the two way mirrors we put on the exterior

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  • Editorial – Faith and Law0

    Illustration By James Mellett The woman sitting to my left at the May 2 CARE Act Rally in the Hart Senate building turned out to be from a Christian community aid program in Phoenix, Arizona. By her wide-eyed intensity I had picked her to be of the mind-set I'd observed before in various multilevel marketing

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  • Editorial – Executive Summary0

    This morning I unpacked my latest cell phone and tried to turn it on. And tried and tried. To no avail! I pushed every likely button in hopes of getting power up. I even read the summary sheet for start-up. It was cryptic and unhelpful. Finally I called the 800 help line, and a velvet-voiced

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  • Editorial – Body and Spirit0

    Way back in the wobbly days before the operation to free Iraq from Saddam Hussein I read a rather confident essay by a nationally syndicated columnist: a man who has written for Liberty on more than one occasion. Agreeing with his characterization of the Iraqi regime but a little taken aback at the readiness to

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