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Not found in teachings
Re: Massacre in Paris Wave of gun
and bomb attacks kills over 140 at concert,
stadium, restaurants, Saturday news story
The deadly attacks in Paris have killed
more than 100 people a terrible atrocity
for which ISIS has taken responsibility.
These perpetrators acting in the name of Islam are not deserving of being called human beings they are monsters.
If prophet Muhammad were alive today,
he would be appalled at the way ISIS and
other militant groups are slaughtering innocent lives in the name of Islam. In his
farewell pilgrimage address, he said, Even
as this month, land and day of Pilgrimage
are holy, so has God made the blood, property and honor of every human being sacred.
I reiterate that he emphasized every human being, not just Muslims. If ISIS calls
themselves Muslims, then how come they
are so foreign to this very basic teaching of
Islam, which is to show compassion and
love to humanity? Clearly they are not following any religion and in the process have
painted a very dissolute picture of Islam
only to gain personal motives.
We need to stay united in denouncing
acts of terror by ISIS and continue to perceive this evil as our mutual rival. God willing, we get to witness its downfall very
soon.
Nadia Ahmad, Round Rock
Missed opportunity
Re: France bombs Syrian city ISIS
targets destroyed in wake of carnage in
French capital, Monday news story.
As a former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter
pilot and combat veteran of the 1991 Gulf
War, I am deeply troubled by the news that
French fighters bombed ISIS targets in Syria, including an ISIS command post, jihadi
recruitment center, weapons and ammunition depot, and a terrorist training camp.
According to President Barack Obama,
U.S. fighters have been flying ground attack
sorties against ISIS targets for months. If
so, why havent these specific targets already been taken out? Is this part of Obamas strategy of containment? If the presidents goal is the destruction of ISIS, waiting for other nations to do the job after
theyve been attacked is not an effective battle plan and shows a genuine lack of leadership.
Keith Rosenkranz, Grapevine
Citizenship games
For years weve read Mark Davis column imply how Barack Obama may not be
eligible to be president of the United States
because (1) he might have been born outside the United States, or (2) because one of
his parents was not a U.S. citizen. Mark Davis also wrote about how he supports the
proposed laws requiring, as he put it in his
column in 2011, evidence of natural-born
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consistent with
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Cruzs posturing
In the past couple GOP debates, all the
candidates seem to be desperately fumbling over one another as to who can look
more like an outsider. But two candidates
in particular who usually stand out as the
obvious alternatives, Ted Cruz and Donald
Trump, have remained unusually cordial
toward each other despite all the mud
flinging.
In July it was reported that Cruz met
Trump in private at the Trump Tower.
When asked, Trump played stupid as to
why they were meeting. Now Trump is doing everything he can to topple the other
front-runner in the race, and in the process making himself look like a total fool in
my opinion.
Meanwhile, Cruz has made the statement that Trumps voters will eventually
turn to him. Convenient that Cruz has remained out of the spotlight, and under the
radar of the media.
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Assistant to the editorial board, 56
At The Dallas Morning News since late 2002, Keven developed her
interest in politics early. When her family lived in Washington, D.C.,
her mother used to take Keven as a baby in her bassinet to the U.S.
Senate gallery to watch the likes of Everett Dirksen and Estes
Kefauver debate the issues of the day. Three decades later, Keven
was a political columnist for The Arizona Republic in a state that for
most of the 80s and 90s was best known for impeaching, indicting or otherwise
politically impaling its governors. Editorial pages under her direction won the 2010
Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing and were finalists for the same prize three other
times since 2001. Keven studied briefly in Europe and Mexico before graduating
magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University and starting (but never finishing) a masters program in Spanish literature. She is a member of the Pulitzer Prize
board, enjoys hiking and biking, and lives with her chef husband in downtown Dallas.
Email: kwilley@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @KA_Willey
Email: nstockdale@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @nstockdale
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DOM DiFURIO
Digital intern, 22
Dom DiFurio contributes to the blog and
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accounts. He is passionately interested in
the way technology intersects with culture,
as well as how it impacts human interaction and lifestyle. He
enjoys photography and videography, and outside of work he
likes to try his hand at cooking up new recipes. Hes a graduate
of Arizona State Universitys Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he learned that you
should never tweet.
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Mike oversees content selection and editing of the daily Viewpoints page and the Sunday Points section. He rejoined
the newspaper in 2014 after working two years as vice president for content at Idea Grove. Before that, he was a
career-long newshound. He worked for nine years at The Associated Press before moving to The Dallas Morning News
in 1999. He spent the next 13 years working as education editor, criminal justice editor, state editor, city editor and
assistant managing editor. Mike was born in Detroit but considers himself a naturalized Texan. He is a graduate of
Grapevine High School and the University of North Texas, with a bachelors in journalism. When hes not on the job,
Mike stays busy with his family: his wife, Amy, two teenage daughters and a 6-year-old son who loves Star Wars and soccer.
Email: mdrago@dallasnews.com
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LEONA ALLEN
Editorial writer, 51
Leona Allen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent 30 years as a reporter, editor
and newsroom manager. Shes reported on
subjects that include education, criminal justice, local government and state government. She started at The Dallas Morning
News in 1994. Before becoming an editorial writer, she served as
statehouse bureau chief, suburban editor, general assignments
editor, night city editor, deputy metro editor, assistant managing
editor and deputy managing editor in her career. While at the
Akron Beacon Journal, she was part of the reporting team that
won the 1994 Pulitzer for public service journalism for its yearlong examination of race relations in Akron. The Dallas native is a
graduate of North Texas State University (now the University of
North Texas). She lives in Garland.
Email: ldallen@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @ldallen
SHARON GRIGSBY
Twitter: @SharonFGrigsby
MIKE HASHIMOTO
Editorial writer, 57
Twitter: @MikeHashimoto
MICHAEL LINDENBERGER
Editorial writer, 44
Michael Lindenberger is a native Kentuckian
and has been burdened all his life with a corresponding interest in bourbon, politics, history,
horse racing, and serial commas. He started his career as editor of a
Tennessee weekly in 1993 and later as managing editor of a small
daily in Indiana, and has been working his way down the ladder ever
since. He first came to The News in 2000, working most recently as
Washington correspondent for business. He earned his law degree
from the University of Louisville in 2006, and has frequently contributed to Time magazine as a legal affairs writer. He was a Knight
Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2012-13. This is his first month on
the editorial board.
Email: mlindenberger@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @Lindenberger
JIM MITCHELL
Editorial writer, 61
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Monkey politics
Susan Perry: Imagine a society that chooses leaders
based on past behavior instead of promises in glitzy
TV ads, she says. 6P
TALKING POINTS
Sept. 11 is not consigned to history like
Pearl Harbor. This war is still going on.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
on the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist
attacks (Fox5NY, Friday)
God willing,
there will be no
such thing as a
Zionist regime
in 25 years.
Irans supreme
leader, the
Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei,
predicting the
elimination of
Israel (Bloomberg, Friday)
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amar Haspel argues that salad is overrated. And sure, salad gets a lot of attention but Haspel calls salad overrated not because of the hype but because, she
argues, its nutrient-poor, expensive and a tax
on our food system.
Hold that thought. To me and my colleagues at Food52, a salad can be so many
things not just a bowl of lettuce so how
could this be true? We have a salad confusion
on our hands. Here are where Haspels assertions steer us wrong:
1. Salad is lettuce.
What is a salad vegetable? Theres no
definition of what a salad is, or the type of
salads that are being discussed in fact, she
seems to equate lettuce with salad. My salad
today couldve been any number of things (its
summer, so theres a lot to play with), but it
had zucchini, grains and cheese no lettuce.
Saying that salad has a lettuce problem is like
saying pasta has a cream sauce problem. Not
all pastas have cream sauce, and not all salads
have lettuce.
Haspel does define some of these salad
ingredients: Four of the five lowest-ranking
vegetables (by serving size) [on the nutrient
quality index] are salad ingredients: cucumbers, radishes, iceberg lettuce and celery. (The
fifth is eggplant.) Ill get to the nutrition part
in a second, but Im not sure why these four
ingredients are siloed as salad ingredients
and eggplant is left out when you can make
a salad with eggplant; a soup or two, drink or
taco with cucumber; and a soup, pizza, saut,
braise or pickle with radishes. Celery is the
start of so many dishes, and lettuce doesnt
always mean salad.
2. Salad fools dieters into making bad
choices.
Salad, youre so sneaky! Wrong. Salad isnt
fooling anyone misinformation about
ingredients and their nutritional value is. So
what do we do about this? The solution to the
misinformation about salad/lettuce isnt to
eliminate salad/lettuce or the consumption of
salad/lettuce entirely, as this article purports.
Rather, its to know what youre eating.
3. Salad ingredients are low in nutrient
quality.
Yes, I can make a salad with lettuce (which
the article says is full of water, not nutrients),
fried chicken, croutons and mayo dressing,
and it might not be great for me nutritionally.
But I can also make a burger out of black
beans and quinoa and it can be really good for
me. Salad is a type of food, like a burger; neither are ingredients with innate nutritional
values.
4. Lettuce has unfortunate repercussions on our food supply.
Haspel mentions that lettuce is the top
source of food waste, becoming more than 1
billion pounds of uneaten salad every year,
but she doesnt explain why or whether that 1
billion refers to lettuce leaves, pre-made salads and other salad ingredients. Moreover,
the study credited with this information did
not include mixtures of fresh fruit or vegetables (e.g., fruit salad, platters of vegetable
sticks, and pre-packaged salads made from
See SLAGLE Page 5P
Twitter: @JimMitchell18
Email: jmitchell@dallasnews.com
Have questions
or comments about Points?
Email points@dallasnews.com.
Correction: In the Sept. 6 Points section, a box on the Sept. 19 One Day University gave the incorrect cost to attend
the event. The cost is $179, but you get a
15 percent discount by entering the code
POINTS. Register at onedayu.com.
Twitter: @jfloyd_dmn
JAMES RAGLAND
Metro columnist and editorial writer, 54
James began writing for The News in 1985. It was
supposed to be a brief stop on his way to a law
career inspired by Thurgood Marshall and Atticus
Finch. Three decades later, hes still using his pen to crusade for
justice and equality. James covered City Hall for The News and the
mayor of D.C. for The Washington Post. From 1994-99, James
worked as an editor on the DMN metro and political desks. Hes
gone through executive training, taught at a university and picked
up a Certificate of Leadership from SMU (1998). He became a Metro
columnist in 2000 and joined the editorial board this month. James
is a Distinguished Alum at Texas A&M-Commerce and a member of
the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Hall of Fame. Hes married, has three children, and loves antiques, poetry and sports. And
long ago, he wrote a country song.
Email: jragland@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @jamesragland61
MITCHELL SCHNURMAN
Business columnist and editorial writer, 60
Mitch has been a columnist since 2001 and has
covered business news in North Texas for over
30 years. His early stories were about Ross
Perots push to reform public education, including the no-pass, no-play rule that challenged the primacy of
Friday night lights. Perot set Texas on a path of progress and
showed how business leaders could inspire public policy. Mitch
joined The DMN in 2012 after working at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
and Dallas Times Herald; this is his first month on the editorial board.
He earned his bachelors in journalism at the University of MissouriColumbia. He and his wife, Kay, live in Coppell and have four sons.
Email: mschnurman@dallasnews.com
Twitter: @mitchschnurman
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