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World Cup 2018 fever finds an unlikely patient
The last time I played soccer I was in ninth grade. I took a pass from a kid I’ll call Leon, who was the star athlete at our high school, and with the net wide open, I proceeded to kick the ball halfway to the nearest McDonald’s. “You suck!” Leon yelled. I never...
Father’s Day with others’ children still touches heart
PORT AU PRINCE , HAITI – As I write this, on Father’s Day weekend, I am overlooking a small courtyard of 46 children. Some are barefoot. Some run in circles. One pushes a wheelbarrow. Six or seven are reading. Several girls are having their hair braided by nannies. A...
Casey Mize takes it slow; what a pleasant change
There was no tugging on a cap. No hug from the commissioner. No arena crowd roaring its approval. The No. 1 pick in the draft of the national pastime was sitting in a facility at Auburn university last Monday when he saw on TV that he had been selected by the Detroit...
Does God really want preacher in a $54M private jet?
The preacher wants a new airplane. Not just any airplane. A private jet that can seat 16 and fly 6,000 miles without stopping. The cost of this airplane, new, is $54 million. But that’s not a problem for the preacher. He just asks his followers. “(God) said,...
Why are Americans so wild about a royal wedding?
Before the vows, before the hymns, before the majestic organ blasts, before the children carrying the bride’s veil up the steps, before the 92 year-old queen stepping out of her vehicle (“There’s the queen, is she in green?” gushed a CNN commentator) before Prince...
Heroic amputee lost his leg but found something special
It’s coming on graduation season, but I’ve already heard the best commencement speech of the year. It wasn’t delivered in a cap and gown, over a microphone, or to the sound of applause. Instead, it came in a phone interview, with a somewhat tired high schooler who had...
Professor’s hateful tweets not what tenure should protect
Don’t speak badly of the dead. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. That phrase goes back more than 1,500 years and has been practiced at least that long. But not so much today. So it should surprise no one that, upon the death of former first lady Barbara Bush last week,...
Sinclair script is not news. It’s frightening propaganda
If you form an opinion, it’s yours. If I make you repeat my opinion, it’s not. That is the crux of the Sinclair Broadcast Group controversy, where the nation’s single biggest owner of TV stations recently instructed all of its 193 stations to deliver the same message,...
Anniversary of child’s death is a haunting thing to mark
It was exactly five years ago that I lost my job… Today marks three years since we got divorced… On this date, 30 years earlier, the stock market collapsed… One year ago, our little girl died. April 7th. That date has sat on our calendar like a grim reaper lurking...Popular Videos
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