Take your kid to see the Reagan movie
(Sept. 10) If you have any relatives under, say, 45 years old, I hereby pronounce it your civic duty, by any nonviolent means, to take them to see the movie […]
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Constitution Day, not Labor Day, should be September holiday
(Sept. 17) Today, Sept. 17, no less than on the Fourth of July, the public should be celebrating what founder James Madison described to his friend Thomas Jefferson as nothing […]
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American men finally have a tennis major finalist
(Sept. 5) At long last, an American man will be in the singles final this weekend in a “major” tennis tournament. There was a time when that sentence above would […]
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Hu hu knew? A grubby answer
( Aug. 23) No matter how many times Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz calls the Republican ticket “weird,” nothing can top the weirdness, or even perversity, of the Left’s fetish for pronoun prolixity. Most ordinary […]
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Sporting integrity makes welcome appearance
(Sept. 2) Professional golfer Sahith Theegala showed again on Sept. 1 why golf is the sport where integrity matters most. In doing so, he brought back to me a memory nearly half […]
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Hovering hurricane hellishness
(Aug. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — The dread, unspoken but real, starts growing along the Gulf Coast at this time of year. The dread isn’t helped when the first sentence of […]
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Gymnast Jordan Chiles should hold on to her bronze
(Aug. 16) Not since the time when officials outrageously gave the Soviet basketball team three chances to make the gold-medal-winning shot over the U.S. in 1972 has an Olympic medal […]
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Wistful for Olympics past
(July 25) As we watch the Olympic Games this year, some of us oldsters lament a sort of innocence and sense of wonder that has been lost in the past […]
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American cannon: James Monroe’s Fourth of July epic
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, July 4) On this Independence Day, consider how a very few people, in very dire straits, made the difference for the very existence of the nation […]
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Willie Mays’ glorious season in 1971
[The excellent Jay Nordlinger of National Review saw fit to publish a note I sent him about Willie Mays. It’s about halfway down this piece here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/blowin-smoke/ My part reads […]
