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Is it Still a Dream?
By ALAN SMITH
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While much of the world was focused on the terrorists killing cartoonists in France for offending their religion, a few weeks ago in Atlanta, GA, the mayor fired the city's fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, for his Christian faith. The mayor claimed it was not Cochran's faith, but his judgment that got him fired. Mr.
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OB-JEC-TIVE
By ALAN SMITH
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I like words that have more than one meaning. The English language is full of them. Mostly they are spelling differences but "objective" is one that struck me this past week. Objective can mean "a thing sought" as a noun or "an uninfluenced representation of facts" as an adjective. In truth, they complement each other when used together.
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Only Acceptable to God
By ALAN SMITH
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Islam and Christianity have been at war for over a millennium now.

That war has been, at times, invasive to the other. The Moors moved into Europe and conquered territories it still has. The Christians invaded the Levant (Crusades) to capture, or recapture, the Holy Land.
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Pre Occupied
By ALAN SMITH
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In 1973, the US Supreme Court heard and decided, a case on the issue of abortion. It ruled that a woman's right to privacy extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's interests in regulating abortions, which are women's health and protecting prenatal life.
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