Let’s learn from the quadricentennial of the Mayflower Compact
Exactly 400 years after 41 men in the galley of a ship called the Mayflower agreed to form a “civil body politic,” the public would do well to put the […]
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Biden’s Voice of America choice is a silencer of voices
(Nov. 17) President-elect Joe Biden risks forfeiting the United States’s global leadership on behalf of free speech. Biden’s choice of a transition team leader for the U.S. Agency for Global […]
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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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Both California and Alabama get racial issues right
(Nov. 6) Citizens of two states defied stereotypes on racial issues in very good ways in statewide referendums this week. Throughout the South, the stereotype of Californians is of people […]
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Giuliani as pumpkin could show that Biden lied, or worse
(Oct. 19) On the Biden-laptop story, the script from the establishment media already is clear. It’s also deeply dishonest. Until the election, the script calls for media outlets to ignore […]
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In baseball, greats die, and fans pay less attention
(Oct. 22) Major League Baseball is now into its World Series, but the recent string of deaths of baseball Hall of Famers reminds middle-aged fans that the game’s hold on […]
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Goodbye to Joe Morgan, baseball superstar and good man
(Oct. 13) When I was a boy, I wanted to grow up to be Joe Morgan. The Hall of Fame second baseman, who died Sunday night of polyneuropathy, was said […]
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Two crucial policy lessons from Trump’s COVID-19 case
Links embedded in the headlines of both these important thought pieces stemming from Trump’s infection with the coronavirus: Congress should act to forestall an incapacity-related crisis (Oct. 2): Congress should […]
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Trump ad wrongly condemns Biden’s crime bill
(Oct. 2) A new Trump campaign commercial makes an engaging pitch for support from black Americans, but it repeats an attack against opponent Joe Biden that is flagrantly inaccurate and […]
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Gale Sayers was NFL’s greatest gift to our culture
(Sept. 23) NFL Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers, who died Wednesday at age 77, left two indelible marks on the American psyche. The first one left football fans […]
