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    Though I tried to join the Air Force and have relatives who are both current and former fighter jocks, I'm…
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    • Does not make me anti-Israeli, anymore than my opposition to American actions in Iraq makes me anti-American.
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    • You can see it in the way the right is defending those who have been involved in atrocities in Iraq.…
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    • You've got guys on the right, Gingrich among them, who are praying that Syria, Iran, and Turkey get involved.  Let…
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    • Just today, Tony Blair suggested that a plan could be put in place to end the fighting.  But the Bush…
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    • Thank you so much for sharing that.  The ability of people to persevere in the face of tremendous challenges is…
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    • My experience with such laws is that organizations are happy to put someone in a "non-lobbying" position for a couple…
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    • Jared Diamond makes a fairly compelling argument in Guns, Germs, and Steel that individual actions all "come out in the…
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    • The man who comes twice a week to haul away my trash is far more important to me than anyone…
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    • The high level of diary to front page chatter is actually one of the things that makes this site more…
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    • I intentionally used both the terms "doubt" and "certain" before of their multiple meanings. For example, in the central part…
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    • Yeah, there's a reason why I'm a novelist, and not a poet.  It's in my nature to use ten words…
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    • I would have loved to temporize a bit (hey, I also believe in compromise!), but there was a darn 500…
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    • Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran an odious article saying that hybrids didn't really save any gas because "someone…
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    • To me, humility comes first from the assumption that you might be wrong.  So long as you believe you're always…
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    • I don't just believe in doubt -- I love it. I love the 0.01% of things that don't quite surrender…
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    • While many people have derided Bush's recent speech as just the same old, same old, it actually has some important…
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    • We seem intent on chopping down that last grove of palm trees (oil), ruining the surrounding reefs (environment), and expending…
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    • Actually, I've read both. Sorry to make you uncomfortable.  To me, God is an "it," but I recognize that any…
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    • I can't believe how many different sites have sprung up overnight with variations on this. Of course, at some level…
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