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February 17, 2026

Benjamin Franklin

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HILL: Where does excellence come from anyway?

October 30, 2025 Frank Hill

We recently traveled to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to visit our oldest son and his growing family, and it occurred to me that the demand for excellence either came out of the air in Virginia at the […]

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BECKSTEIN: America’s rights are unalienable

September 26, 2025 Karl Beckstein

If our rights come from Washington, then Washington can take them away. That’s not freedom but a road toward tyranny. The debate on whether rights come from God or government isn’t new, but it was […]

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BARONE: Maybe larger families will produce better leaders, as in the early US

April 25, 2024 Michael Barone

Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, while today’s America, with 333 million people, generates the likes […]

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