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The Israel that many admired through a myopic lens has been brought into improved focus, a ruthless state that has similar characteristics to the Nazi state — virulent nationalist, irredentist, militarist, racist, repressive in occupied territories, ethnic superiority, thought control, and genocidal. One major difference between the Nazi Germany and apartheid Israel is that Nazi
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and tans, as nightclubs with a mixed-race clientele were known. At one, she noted that a patron had more than a little too much to drink. “She is lifted vaguely, on her way to the ladies room,” Forbes wrote. ...
The neglected meadow doesn’t resemble a cemetery—not a mausoleum, a columbarium or even a headstone in sight. I wasn’t sure whether I was in the right area, although a roadside sign indicated that I had entered the site of the “Marin County Farm Cemetery,” where approximately 600 indigent people were buried from 1880 through 1955.
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Here’s a look back at what Chicago’s mayors have said in their first official addresses during the past 100 years — and how they are viewed now.
This is a reply to a guest article on Jonathan MS Pearce’s atheist blog, by “Lex Lata”: a sharp and civil atheist commentator (a professor?), with whom I I reply to an atheist regarding Joshua's conquest, and show how in two areas, Bible proponents agree with skeptics, while profoundly disagreeing on a third aspect.