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 […]
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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 […]
