Before Christmas, seeing hope
(Dec. 22) What the whole country is experiencing in these last days before Christmas has the same feel as what New Orleanians felt just before Christmas 15 years ago, less […]
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Ignorant school board ‘cancels’ Jefferson and Mason
(Dec. 10. This was an official editorial of the Washington Examiner): The Falls Church City Public Schools board in Virginia beclowned itself this month by voting unanimously to remove the names […]
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NASDAQ goes idiotically ‘politically correct’
(Dec. 2) The Securities and Exchange Commission ought to reject a proposal from the NASDAQ Stock Exchange that would require diversity quotas on the boards of companies listed on its […]
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Kurt Russell tells actors to stop spouting off
(Dec. 3) We’ve all become so accustomed by now to Hollywood actors spouting off about politics that it shocks us when a big star spouts off against Hollywood politicking. That’s […]
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R.I.P., Rafer Johnson, Great American
(Dec. 3) Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson, who died Dec. 3 at age 86, epitomized the phrase “American hero.” When his event’s winner was known universally as “the world’s […]
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Of William F. Buckley, the Pilgrims, and Gratitude
(Nov. 26) Conservative intellectual giant William F. Buckley once lamented that too many Westerners “accept without any thought the patrimony we all enjoy,” and he wrote a wonderful little book […]
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A Thanksgiving memory, and others, from the Gipper
(Nov. 25) On Thanksgiving Day some years ago, an outgoing president of the United States recorded in his longhand diary that “the Johnny in the bathroom had a mechanical problem” […]
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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 […]
