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February 25, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Over the winter break, Boston College placed in its classrooms crucifixes and other Christian symbols, many of them brought back from historically Catholic countries by ...
 
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The case of Jonathan Lopez, the Los Angeles Community college student who allegedly was called a "fascist bastard" by his speech professor for delivering ...
 
March 27, 2008     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Barack Obama isn't the only presidential contender with a prominent bigot among his supporters. John McCain accepted the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, who regularly ...
 
April 4, 2007     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Some British schools are dropping lessons on the Holocaust and the Crusades, seeking to avoid antagonizing Muslim students. A Historical Association report, funded by the ...
 
February 28, 2007     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Don’t identify people in the news by race unless race is important to the story: that’s the policy of most newspapers. But in practice, outbreaks ...
 
July 30, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Just when you think the debate over embryonic stem cells can't get any more degraded, an outfit called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution comes ...
 
July 16, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Brittany McComb's microphone went dead at her high school commencement because school officials thought she was talking too much about religion. This was during her ...
 
May 14, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Tom Hanks thinks Christians shouldn't become irate about "The Da Vinci Code." He says it's just a story, "loaded with all sorts of hooey and ...
 
March 26, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
The controversy over gay adoptions in Massachusetts is an issue that can be framed two ways. In the conventional liberal narrative, this is a simple ...
 
February 5, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
One of the first things I wrote after getting this job as a columnist was a defense of Muslim sensibilities in the Salman Rushdie case. ...
 

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