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Rod Dreher
Cad of the Year
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Rod Dreher
You cannot improve (if that is the word) on the guy arrested for beating up his armless, legless girlfriend: Although Bell had both hands and part of both legs amputated because of a childhood illness, Smith said she can still be violent when she loses her temper. “She’ll swing, push me down and choke me…
SEC: Goldman Sachs are fraudsters
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Rod Dreher
O happy day: Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail. The move marks the first time that regulators have…
What really killed Phoebe Prince?
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Rod Dreher
Yes, says Christopher Caldwell, it was a school administration that didn’t take its responsibility to stop bullying seriously enough. If that were the gist of it, we could pass laws and make administrative remedies for the problem. But: Because the Prince case is not an administrative problem. It is the symptom of a larger cultural…
Peggy Noonan meets Cardinal Law
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Rod Dreher
This extraordinary passage from (the Catholic) Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column today. She recaps how American bishops reacted at first to the 2002 scandals, and then says: Does any of this, the finger-pointing and blame-gaming, sound familiar? Isn’t it what we’ve been hearing the past few weeks? At the end of [a 2002 Noonan…
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