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  • Walter Palmer: Scapegoat?

    Walter Palmer: Scapegoat?0

    • July 30, 2015

    Many people are confused why more vitriol is being directed toward Walter Palmer, the killer of Cecil the Lion, than toward Planned Parenthood after another undercover video of their actions was released. Many assume it is because the mainstream media is actively colluding with Planned Parenthood, or is suppressing news about the video because they are

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  • Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

    Walter E. Williams 1936-20200

    Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom. Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he

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  • Walt Whitman’s (Surprising) Advice to Would-Be Writers

    Walt Whitman’s (Surprising) Advice to Would-Be Writers0

    Everyone wants to be a writer these days. This is normal. Writing involves sharing interesting thoughts, experiences, and stories. What’s not to like? The problem? Writing is, well, really hard. Ernest Hemingway, one of the best ever, once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

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  • Walking Away From Widget-making Tyranny

    Walking Away From Widget-making Tyranny0

    The other night I was shambling around online when I came across a Frontpage Mag article by Don Feder, “The Left’s Anti-Life Agenda.” Nothing in this article surprised me, but some of its information did sadden me.          The United States has a birth rate below replacement levels, Feder reports. China is

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  • Walker Percy’s Theory on the Redemptive Power of Hurricanes

    Walker Percy’s Theory on the Redemptive Power of Hurricanes0

    The idea that hurricanes can be anything other than destructive might sound strange to many people. And the idea that they can be a source of redemption and healing probably sounds downright absurd. But the novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) believed just that. To Percy, a writer and philosopher from Louisiana, modern man’s great struggle was

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  • Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True

    Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True0

    One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as

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