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Sanitized News and Iraq

Say hello to Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, who was fast asleep when the Iraq war shattered his life forever. A US missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and without both his arms.

“It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my [...]

Hegel and Kindergarten

The classroom assignment was called “All About Me.” Elementary school children were to “identify individual interests and learn about others.” But when his turn came, little Wesley Busch was told he could not read from his favorite book, the Bible, because it was considered “proselytizing” and “promoting a specific religious point of view.”  The [...]