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Rod Dreher
Black Diamonds of West Virginia
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Rod Dreher
I spoke to my sister Ruthie tonight, who sounded strong and upbeat, despite a new chemo blast yesterday. She mentioned that she and Mike had received in the mail a card from the Black Diamonds, the nickname of the West Virginia Army National Guard troops that Mike had served with in Iraq, and had become…
The Great Deconstruction
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Rod Dreher
Don’t feel too sorry for Greece in its financial agony. Get a load of this: ATHENS — Vasia Veremi may be only 28, but as a hairdresser in Athens, she is keenly aware that, under a current law that treats her job as hazardous to her health, she has the right to retire with a…
Why did Kansas City’s public schools fail?
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Rod Dreher
The Kansas City school board finally got around to doing what ought to have been done years ago: close about half of the city’s public schools. It’s quite a shock to the city, and understandably so; to lose half your schools in a stroke is an astonishing blow. But this has been a long time…
The plastic surgery plague
By
Rod Dreher
“Plastic surgery has everything to do with how a person feels about him or herself. There’s no such thing as too much.” — Joan Rivers. Gawker is right: How come people still keep getting plastic surgery? Excerpt: Call me naive, but so much noise has been made lately about plastic surgery disasters — a conversation…
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