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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...
How a man who can’t move manages to move us all
What have you done so far with your day? Even if you’re reading this early in the morning you’ve likely brushed your teeth, dressed, brewed a cup of coffee. The more ambitious may have already worked out, showered, cooked breakfast. At the very least, you’ve used the...
Toys ‘R’ Us closing makes Parents ‘N Us nostalgic
During the two years we were blessed to raise our little girl from Haiti, there was no bigger adventure than a trip to Toys ‘R’ Us. To adults, it might have been a megastore, big and boxy, but to a 5-year-old, it was Shangri-La. All those toys in one...
How to fix college athletics? Let them make their own money
As we grapple with the evils of money and college sports, we might want to remember Jodie Foster. The actress, who enrolled at Yale University when she was 17, had already been nominated for an Oscar, been paid for many Disney movies, and even hosted “Saturday Night...
What’s the point in writing about another school shooting?
I’ve held a dying child in my arms. I can tell you, as will others who have done it — in war, in a hospital, after a tragic accident or a random shooting — that the only thing you think about is saving the child’s life. You would go anywhere. Do anything. Give up...
Guess who the government wants to help? The airlines
Anyone who flies these days knows the last thing the airline industry needs is more favors. You already can’t fit in a seat, can’t get a meal, and can’t take bags, change your ticket, sit where you want or even speak to a human being without incurring a fee. Yet...Popular Videos
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