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Don’t Be Nice

How often do weary parents entreat a child, “Can’t you please just be nice to your sister?” The obvious problem is that this is a terribly imprecise request. What does ‘nice’ mean? What are the limits to being ‘nice’? If being nice to my sister means that I am deprived of something to which I

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What Pharaoh Got Right

Short of resorting to crime, the only legitimate way to generate income is by serving others so well that they willingly open their wallets and pay you for what you provide. This means that both individuals and society as a whole benefit when people focus on increasing their income. In doing so, they boost the

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Has God’s Promise Expired?

Does the following scripture in Deuteronomy 6: 1-2 only mean that this promise is only to last for 3 generations? Has this promise expired? “And this is the commandment, the statutes and the laws, the Lord your God commanded to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing into to inherit. So

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V is for Vigilante

Charles Bronson starred in the 1974 classic film, Death Wish. Playing Paul Kersey, a New York architect whose family was brutalized by murderous thugs, Bronson goes on a vigilante rampage. I saw this movie in a Manhattan theater in 1975 and as a newly arrived tourist, I was astonished to see that every time Bronson

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