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  • A Legal Immigrant’s Lament

    A Legal Immigrant’s Lament0

    In the late 1940s, my father, Kenneth Billingsley, a veteran of World War II, was working in a mine in the northern reaches of Manitoba. So through no fault of my own, I was born a long way north of the border. Despite childhood stints in Alliance, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, when I sought to

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  • A Karen Calls Cops on a Kid

    A Karen Calls Cops on a Kid4

    A Meridian, ID, resident recently called the police department to demand a cop hurry over and apprehend an illegal solicitor—someone who’d knocked on her door to peddle without a permit. As reported by Deputy David Gomez, a School Resource Officer in Idaho City, on his lively Facebook Page, the caller told the cops she was

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  • A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans

    A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans0

    The Huffington Post unearthed a humorous gem in the want ads the other day. Posting on JournalismJobs.com, a small town Idaho newspaper owner named Dan Hammes offered a reporter job to an individual “who reads.” The description declares: It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What

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  • A Jewish Gravedigger’s Eyewitness Account of Nazi Camps

    A Jewish Gravedigger’s Eyewitness Account of Nazi Camps0

    According to History.com, June 1 is the anniversary of the first report of Hitler’s death camps. Curious to see what the report contained, I hunted up a copy and found one in Martin Gilbert’s book The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. Gilbert prefaces the report by explaining

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  • A Jewel on the Shenandoah: Something Beautiful for God

    A Jewel on the Shenandoah: Something Beautiful for God5

    From the new church, which sits in the quiet countryside on this soft spring afternoon, the bells ring. A bagpiper, a cardinal, a bishop, a platoon of priests, and several altar servers slowly walk up the hill from the old church to the new and enter through the double doors, over which is inscribed, “HAEC

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  • A Horrible Law Prevents Minneapolis Business Owners From Protecting Their Property

    A Horrible Law Prevents Minneapolis Business Owners From Protecting Their Property0

    Violent riots broke out in Minneapolis again on Wednesday night. This time, chaos rocked the city after misinformation falsely suggesting the police had killed an unarmed black man went viral. The violent outbreak sadly came as no shock, because by now, Minneapolis is no stranger to destructive riots. More looting in downtown Minneapolis. They’ve now

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