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“In Burbank, the school district just told middle- and high school teachers to stop teaching To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men.”

The very two pieces of literature (and cinema) that were most influential to me as a high school freshman in 1980, and instructive and inspirational to my career as a screenwriter.

I weep for what we once were.

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Yes, Obama was adamant not to challenge Assad and turned a blind eye to the wholesale gassing of women and children. And then Obama was so worried about his own pathetic legacy. He oversaw the massacre of 400,000 civilians when he decided not to enforce a NFZ. And the extreme left were praising and backing Bashar Assad all along for "resisting imperialism".

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