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Plenty of morally bankrupt rhetoric on the left

A couple of weeks ago, comedian Bill Maher, host of Real Time on HBO, had New York Times columnist David Leonhardt and Duke University professor Nancy MacLean as panelists to discuss current events in America. During the first panel discussion segment, Maher engaged the panel to opine on the Republican Party advancing concerns about primary...

Joshua Peters
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Presents from the deep

Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series from CJ columnist Nelson Paul on his unique perspective of what it was like in the early 1970s when, as a teenager, he joined a cooperative shrimping operation in North Carolina internal waters. Part one can be found here. The routine was familiar. Get the trawl...

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