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That all means I hope my children know that winning isn’t everything. Not losing yourself to the world is vastly more important. Pressure will be brought to bear and it can be unpleasant. But integrity has to matter. Doing what’s right is always more important than doing what’s liked.

Slate

Murphy was a pro-choice 16-year-old in California when an abusive, on-off boyfriend raped her. When the rape resulted in a pregnancy scare, Murphy’s rapist wanted her to get an abortion, and threatened to kill her and himself if she didn’t. A decade later, she still chokes up when she talks about that time in her life. But the threat was also clarifying. “In that moment, something clicked,” she said. “I could not use violence to get what I wanted in life. I realized that if I were to get an abortion, I would just be passing oppression on to a child.”

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ISIS Media Output Drops as Military Pressure Rises, Report Says http://nyti.ms/2dQ43vX 

Isis and utopia 

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=15065653&utm_content=470098981&utm_campaign=email

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Alan Jacobs HT Dreher and the Republican Trump Post-Mortems begin.

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