SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France — At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France’s Normandy beaches, when allied troops in 1944 turned the […]
It’s rumored that bad luck comes in “threes,” a holdover phenomenon from World War II. If soldiers sought to light three cigarettes with a single match, by the time the third soldier extended a cigarette, the enemy had […]
Listening to Democrat candidates for president makes one think America is a terrible place to live. Income inequality, racism, no single-payer health care system, reckless environmental pollution … America must be the worst country in […]
On Sept. 10, 2001, exactly one day before the phrase “ground zero” came to mean the unthinkable, the unbearable, Amherst professor Jennie Traschen went on record calling the American flag a symbol of “terrorism and […]
I can tell you from my personal experience that America—the greatest country in the world—doesn’t want to go down the Socialist path. It’s a direction that would guarantee severe damage to this wonderful country; a […]
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, Mrs. Powel asked Ben Franklin: “Well, Doctor Franklin, what do we have, a monarchy or a republic?” To which he replied: “A republic, if […]
Sometimes seemingly easy questions are the most difficult to answer. For instance, have you ever asked: “What is the United States?” Many people think they know the answer and have dogmatic opinions. Yet ask them […]
In an age of increasing emphasis on science and technology, many ask the question: “Why study history?” It’s as if the discipline should be relegated to the “dustbin of history,” even when political pundits, for […]
For my entire life, I have been very proud to be a Southerner. There are few things that stir emotion in me like thoughts of Spanish moss hanging in oak trees, big black water rivers, […]
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