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Good Grief

Poetry has to me never been what I have so often heard called a promblem, and that was so for the simplest of reasons: It was never presented to me as a problem until I was advanced in school.

Charlie Hebdo: A Christ Befitting the Modern West

Claude Polin

Paris, January 7, 2015: Two men invoking Allah enter the office of a satirical magazine and shoot its staff, employees, and two policemen.

Clash of the Iconoclasts

Scott P. Richert

Was the murder of 11 members of the staff of a French “satirical” magazine a civilized act? To ask that question even rhetorically seems absurd.

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Black Op, Black Humor
Andrei Navrozov | March 4, 2015
What is it with people? Offing themselves like death’s going out of fashion! First Litvinenko poisons himself with green tea in a sushi restaurant in the middle of London and blames radioactive polonium.
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Netanyahu’s Welcome Clarity
Srdja Trifkovic | March 3, 2015
In his speech to Congress on March 3 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a straightforward, simple, and extreme position on Iran’s nuclear program: there is to be none, or else there should be war.
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Moral Dumbing-Down
William Murchison | March 3, 2015
I gather from Gregg Easterbrook's review in the Wall Street Journal that Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham, in "Cheated", tell a tale of significant dimensions, concerning the indifference of a putatively great university to the chicanery involved in sponsoring fake classes for athletes who can barely read.
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Best of Times or Worst of Times?
Pat Buchanan | March 3, 2015
Despite jihadi violence across the Middle East and ISIS terror in Iraq and Syria, John Kerry told Congress, we live in "a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally—less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century."
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