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LINCOLN: Meditation on the Divine Will
Washington, D.C. September 1862 The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be […]
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KRAWIEC: Slaying the monster
Since the end of 2024 is looming, many of us are getting tax information together. That is one of the least favorite jobs in the universe. Last week, I dug into the tremendous waste in […]
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HARSANYI: Don’t trash the Constitution to dunk on the liberals
“All the right people are angry.” This is what MAGA will tell you when you point out that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., […]
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The Word: A Thanksgiving Proclamation
“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.” More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which […]
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LOVELL: Deconstruction Era
The Reconstruction Era, following the Civil War until about 1900, challenged the country to reconstitute the Union North and the Confederate South into the “Re-United” States. History gives this effort mixed reviews. The South experienced […]
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MOORE: Climate change was the big election loser
A few days before last week’s election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: “If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.” He had that right. Climate change fanaticism was […]
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SHAPIRO: The Trump Doctrine
Donald Trump’s foreign policy was, during his first term, not only successful; it was the most successful foreign policy of any president since Ronald Reagan. Yet thanks to their animus for Donald Trump personally, pseudo-experts […]
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KRAWIEC: DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
The Department of Government Efficiency is surely an oxymoron. There is no efficiency in government anywhere. President-elect Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up this new department. He could not have […]
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JONES: UNC’s SCiLL promotes democracy, not religion
A recent story on UNC Chapel Hill’s pioneering new School of Civic Life and Leadership by The Assembly, a left-leaning online magazine, missed an opportunity to explain to its readers what the program teaches, what […]
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CURRIN: Voters rejected Kamala Harris’ radical abortion agenda
With abortion policy now, for all practical purposes, a state — not federal — issue after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Kamala Harris nonetheless placed abortion at the forefront of her presidential campaign. At her […]