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NYPD Scandals Keep Rolling In – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic

NYPD Scandals Keep Rolling In – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic

January 8, 2012 islamoyankee

NYPD Scandals Keep Rolling In – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic.

Over the long term, I hope we revisit how we've decided to police our communities. In short term, I have son to raise. There are numerous forces I seek to safeguard him against. The police are among them.

NEWSPAPER COLUMN: “My Family’s First Trip To A Mosque” | The Crescent Post

Do We Value Prison More Than College? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast

Anders Breivik’s Christian Terrorism in Norway: Are Pamela Geller and other anti-Islamist bloggers responsible?

Anders Breivik’s Christian Terrorism in Norway: Are Pamela Geller and other anti-Islamist bloggers responsible? – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine. If Muslims are responsible for Islamic terrorism, are Muslim-bashers responsible for the massacre in Norway?

The Cost of War

Haroon links to some goodness on Afghanistan. The Atlantic has an email from Afghanistan. Nick Kristof on building schools. The New Yorker on the individual cost of war for an Iraqi veteran. The New Yorker also had a moving photoessay on the cost of war. The photo below is from the series. It’s same photo Colin Powell mentioned in his Obama endorsement.

Memorial Day | Talking Points Memo

I just came from my 15th reunion, and while I did not see the same sort of public commemoration that Josh talks about, it was very much a topic of conversation as ROTC had just returned to Columbia’s campus. Josh is right, this is no longer history, but our present. I knew more people who served in Gulf I, but that doesn’t mean I’m any less aware of the loss we suffer everyday. Memorial Day | Talking Points Memo. Though there are many customary ways to observe Memorial Day, I’ve often struggled to figure out a way to do justice…

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