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Race remains an issue that cuts through American culture and society like a scythe The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr has captured the imagination of the country and it is not difficult to see why The story only works because Gates is black and the arresting officer was white

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is simply wrong when he states as he did the other day that decisions about whether or not to cover abortions with federally funded tax dollars should be left to medical experts in the field The issue here is not a medical issue but a political one Will

Only days after the the Episcopal Church TEC at Anaheim Calif defied the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Conference by agreeing to resume gay blessings and consecrations of actively gay bishops -- read MSW here -- comes news that 34 American bishops have defied the defiers The rebels

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