Jordanian-American citizen on hunger strike
(March 14) When quiet diplomacy doesn’t work to secure basic human rights for a U.S. citizen imprisoned abroad, a U.S. administration should feel obliged to unleash verbal fireworks — and then to […]
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More upheaval at Madison’s Montpelier
(March 10) Both James Madison ‘s Montpelier estate and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which owns it, have experienced what appear to be odd, precipitous shake-ups. Meanwhile, another National Trust property, […]
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Biden endangers Medicare by smearing Republicans
(March 7) President Joe Biden could have done a truly constructive thing by writing in Tuesday’s New York Times about the need to save the Medicare system from insolvency. Instead, he spread lies and took […]
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Fox News: Dead wrong, but it may still have a legal defense
(Feb. 28) In Fox News’s defense against the well-publicized defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies, Fox needs to remind a jury that there’s a large distinction between what is unethical […]
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IRS should pay penalty for missing own deadline
(Feb. 27) When even progressives complain about the arrogance and incompetence of the IRS , it’s clear the agency needs a housecleaning. Then again, if Congress did its job, the IRS would have less […]
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At New Year’s, looking back and ahead
Five books to read in 2023, Dec. 25: If you are like me, you have more books on the shelves than you can ever read, which also means that when […]
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EXCLUSIVE: CEO of National Trust resigns
(Nov. 18) Paul Edmondson, the CEO and president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation who has been heavily involved in turbulence at James Madison’s Montpelier , a Trust property, has announced […]
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How can we better serve our veterans?
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Nov. 11) On this Veterans Day, let us not just praise the valor of those who served in the U.S. armed forces , but also do […]
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This Dutchman has lived the free-market dream
(Nov. 2) A book I just finished offers lessons to the increasing number of young people who fail to appreciate the virtues of the free market or of the American […]
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August columns and editorials
One and Three Quarters Cheers for the Late Mikhail Gorbachev (Aug. 31) As education unions go woke, real learning suffers (Aug. 30) The Left’s gender-bending is getting tiresome (Aug. 29) […]
