Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zeal to generate discussion about controversial issues, I may have gone too far on occasion. But I'm certainly not the evil conservative that the liberal establishment likes to depict all of its foes as. In real life, I'm a soft-spoken, mellow fellow who smiles and nods a lot. If I am guilty of anything. I would say (to borrow from Shakespeare) that I have loved opinion writing and debate over issues "not wisely, but too well...
...best way to stop so-called "binge drinking" is to lower the drinking age to 18, if not 16, and fight to abolish the evil reputation that alcoholic beverages have among clueless portions of the population. It is high time that we overcome the repressive puritanical heritage of this nation and begin to make people responsible for their own choices. The government's policy towards alcoholic beverages has been consistently inadapted, reaching peaks of idiocy with the prohibition and continuing today with age restrictions. I can only hope that one day the United States will have the maturity to follow...
...might consider discussing their beliefs instead of their positions and acknowledge what both sides know to be true: a late-term abortion is almost always wrong; but forcing a 13-year-old who accidentally becomes pregnant into motherhood by making first-trimester abortions illegal is its own kind of evil. Then maybe we could get somewhere. The Bennetts and the Powells have made an admirable start...
...story of the Civil War is more than a series of battles and set of disturbing statistics. It is a tragic experience that must be understood as necessary or unnecessary, right or wrong, good or evil, in order to have meaning in any community. If Harvard has such an understanding, and indeed it does, then it is that deeper meaning, and not some misplaced notion of "equal time," that should be made manifest in the monuments it builds. If it does not, then Lincoln's spirit is dead and our atonement moot. For atonement is only achieved...
...controversy surrounding the construction of the proposed memorial is rooted in the problem of legacy. In those places where evil existed in the past, there is a challenge to succeeding generations to deal with that heritage. The temptation is always towards revisionism, towards casting more favorable light upon one's own history. But that is the easy...