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United Nation building, Geneva
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Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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High U.N. Official Supports “Nature Rights” and Environmental Lawfare

Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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The assistant secretary general of the U.S., Kanni Wignaraja, wants "nature" to go to court so that tribunals can set environmental policy for the world. From her "Nature Goes to Court," published by the U.N. Development Programme (of which she is a regional director): Read More ›
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Top down view at group of volunteers giving out simple meals to people in need at soup kitchen
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Marvin Olasky
December 27, 2024
Homelessness
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Sentimentality vs. Compassion

Marvin Olasky
December 27, 2024
Homelessness
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I almost let 2024 slip away without a column about the 30th anniversary of The Homeless, an important book by scholar Christopher Jencks published in 1994. It included these sentences: "The homeless are indeed just like you and me in most respects. . . . But important as such similarities are, our differences are also important. To ignore them when we talk about the homeless is to substitute sentimentality for compassion." Read More ›
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Homeless people sleeping in sleeping bag and cardboard in a street, concept of financial crisis, unemployment, lose job, vulnerable groups.
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Marvin Olasky
December 20, 2024
Homelessness
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In the Life of a Homeless Man

Marvin Olasky
December 20, 2024
Homelessness
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With Christmas coming, I'm taking a timeout from my usual columnizing to send greetings to Tony, a homeless man in Colorado. He is 67 years old and may be sleeping in a North Face sleeping bag within an abandoned 144-square-foot wooden structure adjacent to a cemetery. (His summer bed has been a picnic bench about a third of a mile from a Safeway/Starbucks.) Read More ›