Marriage and divorce rates BOTH are down
(Nov. 12) Trends on marriage in America appear to have become one of those (Champagne) glass-half-full propositions. The empty part of the glass is a continued decline in the rate […]
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Vets Day thoughts on how to improve the VA
(Nov. 11) The United States is doing a better job of taking care of its veterans than it was seven or eight years ago, but it’s still not doing well […]
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U.S. government should not support ‘Islamic Relief’ group
(Nov. 12) The nominally anti-Islamist Trump administration has continued to finance and partner with a group called Islamic Relief Worldwide that is under furious fire in Europe for rampant anti-Semitism […]
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Criminal probe of John Bolton is abuse of Justice
(Sept. 15) The Justice Department’s move to open a criminal investigation into the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir sends a chilling signal to all people who […]
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What Hurricane Sally was like, in almost real time
(Sept. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — Winston Churchill wrote in the late 1800s that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” and that’s what most […]
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In England, historical ignoramuses attack Gladstone
(June 9) When the woke despoilers of history and reason try to cancel the legacy of one of the greatest liberalizers in Western civilization, they demonstrate a willful ignorance so […]
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Rodney King sends note to my readers (figuratively speaking)
Why can’t we all just get along? Those famous, admirable, and heartfelt words of a troubled and far from blameless Rodney King, the victim of a famous police beating in […]
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Arbery killing shows dangers of vigilantism
(May 11) It’s not just the racism, but the vigilantism too. In the now-infamous killing of black Georgian jogger Ahmaud Arbery, there is much to be said, much of it […]
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An afterword for Dorothy Lill, librarian
(April 17) While it’s not unusual to pay tribute to the tremendous role coaches can have in our lives, it may not be common to pay tribute to a librarian. […]
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Patients need more advice on treating the virus
(March 16) To this layman, it seems that authorities are doing far better at telling us how to avoid the spread of the coronavirus than they are at telling us how […]
