Recent Commentaries

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What Went Right
Why is it that so many good stories – the ones where some impending tragedy is prevented – rarely make broadcast news? I could be sitting here writing about another school shooting if not for the intervention of some alert students who didn’t hesitate to act. This story began with an email from friend and former San Francisco vascular surgeon...
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October 7, 2015
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The Planned Parenthood Debate
In the second Republican presidential debate (Sept. 16), former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina took on Planned Parenthood, a non-profit that receives approximately $500 million in federal funds each year. “I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to...
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October 5, 2015
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When?
Whenever another mass shooting takes place, we hear the same litany: “Not one more mass shooting. Not one more child shot. Not one more innocent life cut short prematurely by gun violence.” Blacksburg, Lafayette, Chattanooga, Charleston, Newtown, Aurora, Isla Vista. Look at the list of school shootings in the United States. On the media: interviews with police, students, victims’ families,...
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October 2, 2015
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The Scorpion and the Frog – A Modern Fable
By now, presidential candidate Donald Trump’s principal success has been in branding his behavior as relentlessly rude, crude and uncurbed, believing he can bully and badger his way to the White House. And when it comes to the facts, he doesn’t just play fast and loose, he just plain ignores them. Trump likes to use the word “fabulous” in describing...
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October 1, 2015