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"As a means of registering my discontent with conservative claims that the fact that 70 percent of Americans abhor the idea of the "Ground Zero Mosque" means it should be abandoned, I hereby present other things that 70 percent of "certain" Americans once hated."
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"I have this problem.
When I get home from work, I sit down on my couch and open my laptop. When I'm waiting for the next bus, I pull out my iPhone.
Then there's the unconscious ritual: email, RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr--maybe even Reddit if I'm not paying attention.
It's not that I don't do things. I do lots of things! But this is my default mode, my idle mode. The sink on the state machine graph. Some other force has to wrest me out of it."
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How the standard style of math education leads students to be impatient problem solvers, and how you can fix it by being less helpful.
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Orrin Hatch, of all people, becomes one of the few prominent politicians to take the right position on the mosque nonsense. Good for him.
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I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. All of us ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated, but this is not the case.
I know those opposing the NY Community Center continue to say that that the majority supports them, but as history has taught us the majority is not always right. Would women or non-whites have the vote if we listen to the majority of the day, would the non-whites have equal rights (and equal access to churches, housing, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, schools, colleges and yes water fountains) if we listen to the majority of the day? We all know the answer, a resounding, NO!
Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics and do what is right, not what is just popular with the majority. Some men comprehend discrimination by never have experiencing it in their lives, but the majority will only understand after it happens to them.