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Mark Davis: Stigmatizing top earners doesn’t fuel ascent of others
![President Barack Obama spoke about the economy and growing economic inequality Dec. 4, calling the income gap between America’s rich and poor a “defining challenge of our time.”](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131218203317im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20131217-markdavisdig.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w440/MARKDAVISDIG.JPG)
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Talk of “income inequality” is the first step in the game of persuasion that leads to income redistribution.
Texas Faith: Do Santa and Jesus always have to be white?
![Suryiah Proverbs, 7, talks with Santa, a.k.a. Langston Patterson, 77, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2013. Patterson has been Santa at the Plaza since 2004. "I just don't want him to think that all greatness comes from a different race," said Logan's godmother, Arlene Graves, 45. "There are Santa Clauses his color doing good work, too." (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131218203317im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20131217-us_news_black-santa_3_la_34780665-1-.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w440/US_NEWS_BLACK-SANTA_3_LA_34780665+%281%29.JPG)
Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times
Our panel weighs in on the controversy raised last week when a Fox News anchor took issue with a black writer's article suggesting that that shouldn't be the case.
Editorial: UT’s Mack Brown, undermined from within, makes it stop
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His death by a thousand cuts ended when he’d finally had enough, although he had too much class to say it that way.
![President Barack Obama spoke about the economy and growing economic inequality Dec. 4, calling the income gap between America’s rich and poor a “defining challenge of our time.”](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131218203317im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20131217-markdavisdig.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/MARKDAVISDIG.JPG)
Mark Davis: Stigmatizing top earners doesn’t fuel ascent of others
![Suryiah Proverbs, 7, talks with Santa, a.k.a. Langston Patterson, 77, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2013. Patterson has been Santa at the Plaza since 2004. "I just don't want him to think that all greatness comes from a different race," said Logan's godmother, Arlene Graves, 45. "There are Santa Clauses his color doing good work, too." (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131218203317im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20131217-us_news_black-santa_3_la_34780665-1-.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/US_NEWS_BLACK-SANTA_3_LA_34780665+%281%29.JPG)
Texas Faith: Do Santa and Jesus always have to be white?
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131218203317im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20131216-texas_brown_football_34729467.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/TEXAS_BROWN_FOOTBALL_34729467.JPG)
Editorial: UT’s Mack Brown, undermined from within, makes it stop
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