And then, on September 11, the world fractured.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
Tags: murder 9-11 terrorism families-of-victims
People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.
Barack ObamaTags: disabilities
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
Barack ObamaBagaimana bisa Amerika mengirimkan orangnya ke ruang angkasa, namun masih membuat batasan bagi penduduknya yang berkulit hitam?
Barack ObamaDemocracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.
Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.
Tags: democracy religion government abortion
Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk.
Barack ObamaAnd it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way.
Barack ObamaBut by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.
Barack ObamaTags: teachers
What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".
Barack ObamaTags: war politics-of-the-united-states
I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.
Barack ObamaTags: relationships
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