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GARRISON KEILLOR
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The holy nativity in New York City
I got to teach Episcopal Sunday school last week, a rare privilege, and it was in a New York church so the kids had plenty to say. Teenagers, and if you expect them to sit in rapt silence as you tick off points of theology, you're in the wrong place. They made plenty of noise, and not much of it about religion. Some of them seemed to be on a faith journey that was heading away from the Nicene Creed toward something cooler and jokier, some form of animism perhaps, the worship of cougars and badgers.
The Democrats protect the corporations
On Dec. 4, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations headed by Democrat Carl Levin and Republican Norm Coleman held a hearing on abuses of consumers by credit card companies. As with a similar hearing by the same panel earlier this year, horror stories of rapacious corporate practices attracted substantial news coverage.
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