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  • We’re Overdue for a Reality Check

    We’re Overdue for a Reality Check1

    “Denial,” goes an old Alcoholics Anonymous word-pun, “isn’t just a river in Egypt.” Agreed. My online dictionary defines denial as “the action of declaring something to be untrue, a statement that something is not true.” A classic example of that definition recently happened in Los Angeles. Likely boosted by a media looking for headlines, officials

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  • ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello

    ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello12

    The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Substitute “Jefferson” for “Caesar” in Marc Anthony’s funeral speech, and you have a tidy summation of the guided “woke” tours at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. On July 5th—the day after our nation once

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  • A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny

    A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny10

    Staying upbeat these days sometimes requires the strength of a Samson, the mind-set of a Millennialist, the heart of a Pollyanna, and a bottle of New Amsterdam Vodka. I lacked all of these weapons one recent evening. I’ve taken a leave of absence from alcohol, and the other attributes were as remote from me as

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  • MADS, the Condition Ravaging America

    MADS, the Condition Ravaging America6

    Since 9/11, which now seems light years away, the American body politic has taken hooks to the ribs and uppercuts to the chin that would have knocked any champion pugilist down for the count. The last three years in particular have delivered these blows at warp speed. The strange election of 2020, the precipitous decline

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