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Obama to preside over Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks

As always, Palestine and Israel are staring each other down, estimating their chances of survival in an all out war to wipe the other guy out. Y’know, “KILL THE BUGGERS” and all that. So master of elocution and current U.S. president Barack Obama is going to play referee and try to get them to finally get along. I have my doubts how much he can help, but it’s certainly worth a shot.

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If it feels like I do too much politics, keep in mind that I specialize in conflicts of opinion and dueling slant. It’s the reason I think democrats and republicans ought to be the best of friends: who better to point out the flaws in our reasoning than the people who fundamentally disagree with us?

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“Where there is a dispute between Truth and Justice, let Charity judge; where there is argument between Charity and Justice, let Truth light the way; and where there is disagreement between Truth and Charity, let Justice decide the course.”
— Me, putting together Victor Hugo’s Three Luminaries and the Lusitanian justice system in a weird combination.