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TUCKER: The missing link
In the ongoing wake of violent rioting, America has much to be concerned about. Ben Franklin’s long forgotten quip that we have a republic “if you can keep it” suddenly seems relevant. Much in the […]
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MULLIGAN: Victim or victory?
I have often joked it wasn’t until I attended college I learned as a woman I was “oppressed.” I did not grow up in a home with a victimhood mentality, where I was taught that […]
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PRAGER: 5 arguments against ‘America is a racist country’
The left-wing charge that America is a racist country is the greatest national libel since the Blood Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history. Neither […]
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CUSHMAN: Remembering the cost of a free and undivided republic
Memorial Day normally equates to BBQ, sales and pool openings — the beginning of summer. Many people travel to a beach, lake or mountain. Some traditions include visiting a memorial cemetery to honor the fallen. […]
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Hong Kong lawmakers clash as pro-Beijing camp elects chair
HONG KONG — Clashes broke out in Hong Kong’s legislature Monday for a second time this month as a pro-Beijing lawmaker was elected as chair of a key committee that scrutinizes bills, ending a prolonged […]
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DOWD: How the pandemic is reshaping our world
We have never witnessed a voluntary world-wide shut-down of modern civilization, as has taken place with the Covid-19 pandemic. While the economic damage will be devastatingly clear, other consequences will be less obvious at first. […]
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WILLIAMS: Rights versus wishes
Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” He’s not alone in that contention. That claim comes from Democrats and Republicans and liberals and conservatives. It is not […]
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HILL: Victory or death: What would George Washington say today
We visited our son, his French wife and our grandson in Fredericksburg, Virginia last weekend. As Providence would have it, Mount Vernon was celebrating the 288th birthday of George Washington on the “real” President’s Day, Feb. […]
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WILLIAMS: Young people ignorant of history
A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw […]
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NOTHSTINE: How the Reformation shaped modern freedoms
Many Christian denominations and churches across the world are nearing the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. October 31 marks the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to Castle Church […]