Abridged Daily News Columnists

Ronnie Polaneczky: “The healthy heart of a community - the bricks-and-mortar embodiment of its best, most hopeful and egalitarian self. Close a library and you still a neighborhood’s beating heart.” What? Are you going to tell me the beating heart of Logan Circle is the Central Library and not the giant heart in the Franklin Institute?

Christine Flowers: Here’s my favorite part of Flowers today:

Some judges think we should not elevate their deaths above “the rest of us,” those without the bulletproof vests and the shields. Some citizens think that color excuses criminality, or that poverty is an explanation for antisocial behavior, or that grief is misplaced for those who willingly enter a dangerous profession.

These sentiments are heard in the streets, seen in the courtrooms, read on the letters page.

But they are wrong. Decent people understand it. The rest are irrelevant.

When using a strawman argument, you’re allowed to tear it down a little better than, “Well that’s wrong BECAUSE I SAID SO!”