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Fraternity racist chants–what about contrition?

The story a few weeks back about the bigotry displayed by two members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma gave rise to different viewpoints about how the situation should have been handled. Here are two that stand out.  Both miss the mark. One reader of the Columbus Dispatch thought the […]

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If it’s on the internet, it must be true. Right?

[Because of a technical problem, last week’s post was compressed and difficult to read, and so I’m publishing it again.] Do you remember the State Farm ad, where a young woman talks to a friend about meeting her date, a French model, on the internet? As it turns out, the woman’s date is neither French nor

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Is Cal Thomas right about a double standard?

Don’t look now, but hell just froze over. I find myself agreeing with columnist Cal Thomas. I can’t remember his columns ever resonating with me, but there’s a first time for everything. Mind you, I don’t see eye-to-eye with Thomas just because he’s conservative. I think highly of David Brooks, who is conservative, but Brooks

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