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The Cost of Silence 

In the wake of the Connecticut school shooting, we need to demand courage of our leaders through open, honest and rational debate.

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Last Friday morning, America experienced its seventh mass killing of 2012. An unspeakable act of madness resulted in the deaths of 20 elementary schoolchildren, four teachers, a school psychologist and the school's principal. Some of the adults died performing acts of…

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