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(1819 News) Foley resident Jack Green unleashes blistering attack on City Council over explicit library books available to children — ‘I’m not going to let this slide’
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(1819 News) Mobile Sgt. John Young calls out Montgomery Mayor Reed’s concert for glorifying ‘subculture of violence’ — ‘Any black man promoting that is not worthy of attention’
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(1819 News) Joey Clark: When crime is your city’s top issue, the issue is deeper than politics
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by Stephen Lindsay
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks for the link. You have dealt with much more of Scruton’s output than I have. I like him as a defender of the West against postmodern absurdity (political and aesthetic), but I find his aristocratic and elitist tendenci…
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(QC RSS) Going To Fruition
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. The point you’re making in your first paragraph does capture what I was trying to say. Your second captures what Fuller was trying to say, but I’m still not convinced of its cogency. LikeLiked by 1 person
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. I take your point, but I don’t think my claim turns on the Islamic examples, or the special demandingness of Islam. Consider some very humdrum examples: (1) You agree to get to work at 8 am. Insofar as it’s in yo…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Thanks. There is a fundamental divide between people who have been brought up religiously and those not. And though I was brought up in a religious household, once I got my “basic training,” I really went my own way a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think there are (to some extent, were, for a secularizing society such as ours) clear reasons of both distinctive personal importance and avoidance of deep-seated social conflict to provide special public allowance and prot…
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