Author: Rich Manieri
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Why the Pushback Against Christmas?
The Satanists have their statue. You might have heard that a Satanic sculpture was recently installed in the Illinois statehouse. A local group of Satanists decided that it needed to counteract the Nativity scene that also stands in the capitol rotu…
Categories: Columns
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The Media’s Revisionist History of Republican Presidents
Some things look worse over time – bread, milk, my hairline. Other things get better – wine, cheese, Tom Brady. But time and history (and the media) are kinder and more forgiving to one specific group of individuals than they are to anyone else on …
Categories: Columns
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‘Bah Humbug’ to Social Media Trolls
‘Bah, Humbug’ to Social Media Trolls I was one of the first to speak out against Twitter. In fact, I was one of the first to speak out against a lot of things – spaghetti sauce from a jar, shirtless men mowing their lawns, and the all-Christmas …
Categories: Columns
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From the Ashes, a Lesson in Love and Empathy
We’ve been taught a lesson which we would do well to commit to memory. It’s a lesson about love, respect and what is possible when, as one of my academic colleagues said, we see those on the opposite side as rivals rather than enemies. This parti…
Categories: Columns
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CNN vs President Trump: They’re Both Wrong
CNN vs. President Trump: They’re Both Wrong If you haven’t heard, or just don’t care, which would be understandable, CNN is suing the Trump administration. The nonsense started last week when CNN’s White House correspondent, and boil on the …
Categories: Columns
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Another Election Has Come and Gone. Now What?
That’s over with. And not a moment too soon. It’s usually at this point when I start reviewing what I’ve seen and heard over the past several months and try to make some sense of it, not unlike what a psychologist might do with a particularly vivid…
Categories: Columns
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Maybe We Should Try Listening, For a Change
It might be that our political discourse is what it is because those involved are satisfied with the status quo. The rest of us spend a lot of time wringing our hands over the apparent impossibility to find common ground on any important issues, at…
Categories: Columns
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Democrats Rediscover a Losing Formula
To all of my friends who happen to be Democrats – and I do have many – I offer the following: If you’re enjoying the presidential stylings of Donald J. Trump, keep doing exactly what you’re doing. And if you want to help cement the GOP majority in the …
Categories: Columns
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A Civics Test to Graduate High School? Absolutely
It was an inspiring lecture. One of my finest. And then, I brought up D-Day. Spend enough time in the classroom and you learn to read students’ faces. They say so much. “I’m bored.” “I’m thinking about something else.” “I just broke up with my gi…
Categories: Columns
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The Selfie Destruction of Our Country
What now? Forget civil discourse. Never mind empathy. So long to compassion. If the confirmation process of now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh revealed anything – and it revealed many things – it is that anger is no longer merely an emotio…
Categories: Columns
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