America

MATTHEWS: Why Joe Biden should never be president

October 27, 2020 Stacey Matthews, North State Journal

For as long as I’ve been voting, there are two questions I’ve always asked myself about a candidate before ultimately deciding whether or not I’m going to support them: Does that candidate genuinely believe America […]

Today in history: United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution

September 25, 2020 The Associated Press

In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

HILL: Democrats always blame America first

September 2, 2020 Frank Hill

When was the last time a prominent elected Democrat gave a full-throated, unequivocal statement of support for the United States of America? President Obama took pains to say that America is not “exceptional” during his […]

WILLIAMS: Diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense

September 2, 2020 Walter Williams

Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the […]

On sad anniversary, few to mourn the D-Day dead in Normandy

June 5, 2020 Raf Casert, Associated Press

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 […]

DAVIDSON: Hate bubbling over

February 5, 2020 Jeff Davidson

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 […]

HILL: What if China had colonized America?

October 23, 2019 Frank Hill

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 […]

MILLER: Ground Zero Turns 18

September 11, 2019 Nan Miller

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 […]

SABATES: Let’s Keep America A Free Democracy

March 13, 2019 Felix Sabates

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 […]

HILL: The Propositional Republic of America

January 30, 2019 Frank Hill

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 […]