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Rod Dreher
‘The rich are different: they are more ruthless.’
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Rod Dreher
Data suggest that the rich are different from you and me: Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population. More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of…
Whole Foods vs. Mom
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Rod Dreher
A Chicago mom who is a university teacher and regular Whole Foods shopper got confused trying to leave the store one day with kids in tow, and says she accidentally forgot to pay for a jar of vitamins — this, after having just spent $40 on groceries. The store accused her of shoplifting and banned…
The unjust firing of Octavia Nasr
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Rod Dreher
After 20 years with CNN, the network fired Octavia Nasr for tweeting that she had “a lot of respect” for a dead Hezbollah leader. Here she explains what she meant by the remark, and regrets what she said in the tweet, but that was too late. She still lost her job. And that is a…
Bristol Palin profits from unwed motherhood
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Rod Dreher
I don’t want to make any comment about Sarah Palin and her politics — so don’t you even start in the comboxes — but I share Gail Collins’s puzzlement over Bristol Palin as cultural symbol. Just what are we supposed to learn from her example? Excerpt: To summarize: Bristol Palin is a teenager whose out-of-wedlock…
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