To Comfort The Afflicted
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    It Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test

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    BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The 43-minute death struggle of Clayton Lockett is now Oklahoma history, a story still unfolding. Lockett, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Attorney General Scott Pruitt bring to mind Stephen Glass, the New Republic magazine writer, who was discredited in 1998 when it was discovered he fabricated his sources. Glass fell from […]

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    The Power Of Organizing

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Hard work, we’re told, always pays off. Sure it does – ask a farmworker, a roofer, or a home health aide. In our economy, those doing the hardest work get the worst pay, the weakest job protections, the least respect and zero say in the way things work. Such laborers are the […]

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    Monica Returns

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH Does Monica Lewinsky really think she was a victim of cyber bullying? Apparently so, according to her “coming out” piece in Vanity Fair, which is getting a lot of attention, ostensibly because of its potential impact on Hillary 2016. Nice excuse. But, really, does anyone honestly think Lewinsky’s story will have any […]

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    Bad Old Days: How Lewinsky Deserves To Be Remembered

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    BY JOE CONASON Monica Lewinsky must be satisfied to learn that with a few stylish photographs and a few innocuous paragraphs, she can still discombobulate Maureen Dowd, Lynne Cheney and a swarm of demented figures in American politics and media. Few could resist the chance to reminisce about the tapes, the blue dress, the cigars, […]

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    Campus Rape Victims Should Be Dialing 911

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    BY FROMA HARROP If a 19-year-old high-school dropout raped by her ex-boyfriend wants justice, she calls the police. The same should apply to a 19-year-old college freshman similarly attacked by another student. But it doesn’t apply nearly enough. Colleges have let themselves become arbiters of violent crime. They have no business being in that business. […]

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