Everybody has a responsibility to not judge people based on their religion and not give religious tests when deciding who enters this country.STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ: But searches against Syrian refugees were going up, and searches to “kill Muslims” are going up, and searches for “I hate Muslims” were going up.Or do you feel that compulsive honesty really makes your life more difficult and that lying overall — obviously there’s a million variations in shadings — is a pretty sensible strategy for life. I was getting no dates, and I’m like “Wait, this is stupid.” Then I changed to like a really good picture, and I’m like “Oh. That makes a lot of sense.” )] So: when we’re putting out information about ourselves, we may lie. DUBNER: You write in the book, “The microscope showed us there is more to a drop of pond water than we think we see.But when we want to find information — via Google, let’s say — well, there’s no incentive to lie. The telescope showed us there is more to the night sky than we think we see.It seemed like everything that Obama was doing — even though all the traditional sources were saying that he was doing a great job — was actually backfiring in terms of its real goal, which was to calm an angry mob that had been inflamed by these San Bernardino attacks.
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