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NOVEMBER 30 / Friedman starts climbing down on global warming

LAST NOVEMBER, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman referred to a global-warming skeptics as "brain dead."   

NOVEMBER 29 / How can I repay the Lord

FOR ALL his goodness to me?

NOVEMBER 28 / Today's good work: Goodfellows

ON THE 97th anniversary of the Houston Chronicle's first formal Goodfellows Christmas appeal, let's join the newspaper in buying presents for children in low-income families.

Here's an excerpt from the 1912 frontpage story that announced the formation of the organization:

NOVEMBER 27 / It was bound to happen

PRESIDENT OBAMA's job approval rating on Real Clear Politics -- which averages the results of Gallup, Rasmussen, and other major polls -- dropped below 50 percent.

NOVEMBER 27 / Obamacare scares sensible libs too

THE HOUSE bill would take America a giant step closer to [the goal of providing universal access to doctors, to medicine, to preventive services].

Here is the dilemma:

NOVEMBER 27 / If you're a gallery hopper . . .

. . . drop in at Darke Gallery, 5321 Feagan, to see paintings by Melanie Schlossberg.

NOVEMBER 26 / A day of public thanksgiving and prayer

WHEREAS IT IS the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God . . .

NOVEMBER 26 / A day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient Father who dwelleth in the heavens

THE YEAR that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.

NOVEMBER 25 / A man's worth

MORE THAN just an annual turkey fest, the Puritans gave America a pedagogy of work . . .

NOVEMBER 25 / Mark Steyn on the Chronicle on global warming

FOR THE COMMENTS section of both the [Boston] Globe and The Houston Chronicle, readers seem to have a better nose for news than the J-school bores.