Cruelty is the new liberty


Zachary Roth has an article for The Lookout that gives us the other side of the story of poverty. As it turns out, poverty doesn’t actually mean one is poor because: …that measure, developed over 40 years ago, is inexact at best. It doesn’t include non-cash benefits–things such as food and housing subsidies–that can play [...]

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After ten years…reaching for normalcy


I think it probably says something about where I stand on 9/11 as a generational and national moment that I completely forgot that Sunday was the tenth anniversary. I got up, got dressed, got my boys up and dressed, we had breakfast, and we headed out to try on a new church. We walked right [...]

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Why people think Southerners are “ig’nant”


It is a bit of irony that a country founded on the belief that “all men are created equal” and maximizing individual freedom should still find itself so…unable to cope with issues involving race. And especially our history of racism. I’m talking about this little story: Officials in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. [...]

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