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...least remain locked up for the rest of eternity. While the details of this case are undoubtedly serious and sobering, the mind-boggling amount of media coverage it has garnered is grossly out of proportion with its national importance. In fact, the media circus surrounding this case is downright sickening...
...Schindel inferred, Harvard’s field goal unit was downright awful in 2003, converting on just four of its 12 tries—up from the two of seven one year earlier—while botching seven extra points...
...Loui Itoh (“Selling our Souls to the Right,” Nov. 5) makes following two points. Itoh states: (1) “Religion is less accountable to logic” and also (2) “Wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable and downright wrong.” By saying this, Itoh unwittingly explains why those of faith feel maligned and rejected by the Democratic Party. I am a secularist and have no religious faith, but feel others are given the right under the constitution to express their religious faith. Common sense explains that...
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...first place, wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable and downright wrong. The idea that each person should be entitled to his or her own judgment of who to vote for is demolished when religious leaders threaten the fires of Hell—how can anyone argue with that? You can always find conflicting political “advice” from non-religious sources, but by nature you can’t argue the facts against faith. Religion is simply less accountable to logic. The alliance, formalized or not, between God and a particular political party should...