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Fat as a moral issue
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Rod Dreher
This material is going to be familiar to many of you from an earlier series of blog postings here, but here’s a piece I’ve done on obesity as a moral issue. Excerpt: Anyone who wishes to exercise self-discipline has to swim against powerful cultural currents. But it can be done, and done relatively inexpensively. I’ve…
‘We Are Nashville’ — still
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Rod Dreher
More words about Nashville’s resilience in the face of catastrophic flooding, from Patten Fuqua, who wrote that now-famous blog entry. In this new piece, he writes: The response to my piece has been amazing, humbling, shocking and overwhelming. It’s merely a hockey blog…and my columns probably usually have trouble reaching 100 hits. I’m not claiming…
Does it matter if Elena Kagan is gay?
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Rod Dreher
Honestly, I don’t have an opinion one way or another about Elena Kagan’s suitability for the Supreme Court. I really don’t like that when she ran Harvard, she banned military recruiters from campus over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but I don’t know that that disqualifies her in my view. I also take the view that…
Melissa Hill, Mother of the Year
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Rod Dreher
You’ve really got to read this amazing story about Melissa Hill of West Dallas. I wrote about her husband Trey a couple of years ago, and how he (and she) had given up a life of privilege to go live in the poor part of Dallas, and minister to kids there. In today’s Dallas Morning…
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