Bart Starr was greatest NFL role model ever
No single man will ever epitomize the best of the National Football League like Bryan Bartlett Starr. On the field and off, Bart Starr was the very definition of a […]
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Ronnie’s Razoo City: New Orleans, writ very large
“As I was swimming naked through the living room …” It might have been the best newspaper lead ever. It was the opening phrase of the first post-Hurricane Katrina column penned by Ronnie […]
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Finally, a college president stands against leftist repression
In a time when dissent-trampling thought police reign supreme on most college campuses, we should praise the rare university official who insists on fairness and free expression. Witness Maud Mandel, […]
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Five Alive: Golf (2), budget, bias, bad judges
Follow the links embedded in the headlines. Golf’s best player? Brooks, no argument (May 20): Sports fans may not realize just how astonishingly good is golfer Brooks Koepka. With his […]
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Baseball suffers from algorithm overload
(May 15 column by Quin); A Red Sox vs. Rockies contest on Tuesday provided an excellent example of how “advanced metrics” are harming baseball. While the new metrics can show […]
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Trump should butt out of DC 4th of July fete
(By Quin, May 13). President Trump and his extravagant ego are both out of line in their insistence that he be in charge of, make a speech at, and further increase […]
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Trump’s ‘sport’ hurt vast numbers of innocent Americans
[May 8]: Donald Trump’s callous disregard for others is evident yet again in his series of Tweets on the morning of May 8 responding to the release of ten years of his […]
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L’Arche founder Jean Vanier devoted his life to the disabled
(May 7): A remarkable man named Jean Vanier died Monday at age 90 in France, after spending a lifetime improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with Down Syndrome and […]
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La Notre Dame; Synagogue Shooting; etc.: Save Sacred Places!
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner, April 30; There’s been so much sad news from cathedrals, churches, synagogues, and mosques in recent weeks, months, and years. All political sides may find common ground in the idea […]
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Two on La Notre Dame de Paris
The day the cathedral burned, I wrote this one (Quin): We mourn today with France, with Christians, with all mankind: Aujourd’hui, nous sommes tous français. Today, we are all French. Today, […]
