“Safe spaces,” the Equal Treatment Directive—they reflect more than the simple coddling of an overprivileged generation. It’s a metaphysical meltdown as we try desperately to hold on to words like “human dignity,” all the while undermining the ideas they represent. But words unhinged from reality are very far from safe; in fact, they can be the most dangerous things in the world. It’s imperative for the preservation of free human society that people learn to li...
How “Safe Spaces” Kill Human Dignity | Intercollegiate Review
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Some enjoy the music. Some attend for the sake of harmony and unity within their families. Others appreciate the chance to take time out of their hectic schedules in the context of something that challenges them to think differently about some of life's more enduring mysteries. Granted, they don't actually agree with many of the premises and conclusions offered during the sermons, but that doesn't stop them from being able to appreciate the positions described and from find...
Do Atheists Go to Church? Why Would Atheists Attend?
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I picked up the girl I babysit at school and we walked home for lunch. She knew about what happened, but she smiled and skipped like normal. As we often do, we spent some time singing. Today’s melody was, “the sun will come out tomorrow,” our two accents somehow hitting the same notes. Later on, a bit of a song I can’t name gets stuck in our heads. We sing the one line we know over and over again, in French: gardons espoir. It means, “let’s hold onto our hope.”
The three days after | desmotsdumonde
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After the 9/11 attacks, as the debate over the proposed invasion intensified, Americans soured on France -- Gallup’s poll tracked a one-year 45 percent decline in the number of Americans saying they viewed France favorably, down from 79 percent in 2002 to just 34 percent in 2003. At the time, the French government was making the case that an invasion of Iraq would incite terrorism. "Such intervention could have incalculable consequences for the stability of this scarred and f...
After Years Of Insults, US Conservatives Now Express Solidarity With France
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“The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe. Islamophobia and racism fueled through that are alive and well…When will we start having moments of silence for all of the times white folks have done something terrible?”
U Of Minnesota Student Gov’t Rejects 9/11 Remembrance; Would Violate “Safe Space” | American Military News
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...ic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
What ISIS Really Wants - The Atlantic
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"You're talking about a guy that had a great career and was hard to defend and was a really active defensive player. But this coming from a guy that had 18 unnecessary roughness penalties, seven personal fouls, four roughing-the-passer penalties, a total of 77 penalties in his career and was voted three times the dirtiest player in the National Football League, and was suspended for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Jerry Rice in 2002."
Rodney Harrison says Jeff Fisher is dirty; Fisher then destroys Harrison | FOX Sports
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