Ten good movies based on true stories
This is a companion list for a column of mine that will run in the Washington Examiner sometime between the beginning of Christmas week and New Year’s Day. I’ll leave […]
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On impeachment, where is nuance and statesmanship?
(Dec. 6) Where are today’s statesmen? Are there any? Evidence for their existence is slim. When a question as serious as impeachment looms, senators and representatives owe it to the public […]
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Colleges on FIRE, or going to the dogs
Three pieces, all of them bad news from colleges. For the first two, follow the links embedded in the headlines…. Notre Dame students wants racial quotas on, yes, reading assignments. […]
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A meet, right thanks giving
(Nov. 28) A passage in the 1928 Episcopal prayer book says this: “It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times and in all places […]
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Send these Notre Dame students to bed without supper
(Dec. 1) A group of Notre Dame students has become the latest pack of scolds promoting senseless racialism in the name of ending racism. The proper response is to tell them to grow up […]
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Lamenting the NFL’s pass interference follies
(Nov. 26 — two days before Thanksgiving’s game between the Saints and Falcons) It takes no originality to say that the National Football League’s officiating mistakes continue to be a major […]
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Voice of America should Pack a punch
(Nov. 20) One of the best tools for American diplomacy is being hobbled by the Senate’s inaction on a crucial presidential appointment. President Trump nominated the eminently qualified Michael Pack […]
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College editors turn journalism into cuddly kumbaya
(Nov. 12.) The infantilization of college students has reached epic proportions. The latest evidence comes from the top-ranked undergraduate school for journalism in the country, Northwestern University. There, editors of the Daily Northwestern have published what amounts […]
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Two court cases: Little Sisters, and Taylor Energy
Follows the links embedded in the headlines to read the full columns involving two fascinating court cases. California judges trample rights of Little Sisters of the Poor (Oct. 24). Federal […]
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Anti-Semitism rises with bizarre perversity
(Oct. 14) Last weekend [Oct. 13] I was struck by a stark juxtaposition between the Old Testament reading in Sunday’s Episcopalian lectionary and sad news of yet another series of anti-Semitic […]
