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God’s Big Blog: American Muslims Seek to End U.S. Barriers to Their Charitable Giving

Muslim American leaders are asking President Obama to direct the Treasury Department to work with American Muslim charities to remove the obstacles to charitable giving that have been in place since 2005.

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Book Openers: Barack Obama — How He Got So Smart

If you haven’t yet read President Obama’s memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” don’t miss it. It explains, I think, how Obama got so smart.

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Writing Room: The Rhetorician in the White House — How I Learned to Love the Passive Voice

The passive sentence gets a bad rap — it’s weak, it’s vague, it’s passive. But sometimes a neatly turned passive sentence is just what our ever-shrinking world needs. Obama’s Cairo speech is an example.

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GodsBigBlog: What Non-Believers Think of Obama

For the time being, at least, non-believers are okay with Obama’s stance vis-a-vis religion and spirituality. Check out this story on Politico.com.

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