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Opinion Freedom From Speech
The United Nations saw another shred of its tattered dignity stripped away November 24, when a committee of the General Assembly approved what amounts to a direct assault on Western liberal democracy. In an 85-50 vote, with 42 abstaining, the so-called Third Committee adopted a resolution, submitted by a caucus of Islamic nations, to criminalize…
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Opinion Gorging on Misery
It’s been a busy time for the New York State attorney general, Andrew Cuomo. As the chief law officer in the home state of the financial industry, he is the first responder when there’s trouble on Wall Street. His office has a lengthy record of policing the bankers and brokers when the federal government can’t…
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Opinion Abuse and Trust
A trial of sorts is looming for the famously insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in New York, as a Catholic lawyer and an Orthodox Jewish legislator prepare to face off in court over allegations of rabbinic child molesting. The two combatants are on the same side when it comes to the basics. Both agree that sexual…
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Opinion The Ethics of the Rabbis
On the surface, the crisis besetting America’s largest kosher meatpacker looks a lot like the larger infection that is crippling the nation’s economy and undoing so many iconic brands, from Lehman Brothers to AIG to Circuit City. Like other firms, Agriprocessors fell victim to the arrogance of its owners and the dereliction of outside regulators….
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Opinion Celebration and Healing
In the end, it turned out, race did not matter. Americans went to the polls and chose a president because of what he could do, not what he looked like. Race has been America’s great shame for two centuries. On November 4, America showed itself and the world that it can face its shame and…
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Opinion Africa’s Bleeding Heart
Two Jews meet at a depot on their way out of Europe. This is not the set-up for a joke — far from it. The travelers are the foreign ministers of France and Great Britain, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband, and they were journeying to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hoping to stop a…
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Opinion The Socialism Smear
It was sheer desperation that made John McCain and his allies pull out the lethal weapons in the last days of the campaign and start calling Barack Obama a “socialist.” There’s no greater curse. They claimed Obama’s economic proposals — higher taxes for the rich, more aid for the poor, increased intervention in the markets…
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Opinion Amen to This Election
If you are one of the many millions of Americans eligible to vote before Election Day — and this year that amounts to about one-third the electorate — the long, contentious presidential campaign of 2008 may have already come to a close. For the rest of us, the end is near. Who will miss the…
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