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Never Again – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
IAF F-15s fly over Auschwitz on 4 Sep 2003
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- Senate Judiciary to Manafort: Wonderful thing, subpoenas July 26, 2017The art of the no-deal. The post Senate Judiciary to Manafort: Wonderful thing, subpoenas appeared first on Hot Air.Ed Morrissey
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- A Stand-Up Double!! July 25, 2017A most generous friend of National Review Institute has taken a big fancy to our efforts to raise $100,000 to fund the Center for Unalienable Rights, which NRI senior fellow David French (do you listen to his marvelous, weekly The Liberty Files podcast?) will be spearheading for the purpose of defending those hallowed and fundamental things -- free speech, f […]Jack Fowler
- Sessions, P.S. July 25, 2017Donald Trump’s core support is found among those who want existing immigration laws enforced, an end to state-rights nullification of federal law, and no more legal adventurism that seeks to create new laws ex nihilo. Sessions, in these regards, has been excellent. Even the thought of letting him go is already fracturing Trump’s base; his dismissal would ser […]Victor Davis Hanson
- Tuesday's HOT MIC July 25, 2017BREAKING: McCain returns to Senate. Pence on hand to break tie.
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- Salaita, Out July 25, 2017I have written before about Steven Salaita. Once a tenured professor of English at Virginia Tech, he resigned from that position on the strength of ...The post Salaita, Out appeared first on Commentary Magazine.Jonathan Marks
Rabbi Heschel with MLK, Jr. on the march from Selma in 1965. Heschel is second from right. (Image” Duke University, Abraham Heschel papers archive)
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Posted in Civil Rights, History, Left-wing themes, Political commentary, Popular Culture, Social policy | Tags: Ava DuVernay, civil rights movement, Dovid Efune, Epistemic closure, ideological narrative, Ideology, Left-liberalism, march from Selma 1965, Martin Luther King Jr., morality plays, movie Selma, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Race politics, religious inspiration civil rights movement, Selma, Susannah Heschel