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  • Queen Elizabeth, Prince Louis, and the Legacy We Leave

    Queen Elizabeth, Prince Louis, and the Legacy We Leave4

    The Platinum Jubilee of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was celebrated with Trooping the Colour on June 2, leaving many picture-perfect moments in its wake. The passing parade provided one Kodak moment. Smiling senior members of the royal family waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace provided another. But the audience choice award for the

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  • Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s

    Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s0

    The law that legalized euthanasia in Quebec – under the euphemism “medical aid in dying” – came into effect exactly two years ago, on December 10, 2015. Many promises preceded its intrusion into our health system: that this would be an exceptional measure for exceptional cases, that there would be safeguards to prevent abuse, and

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  • Quashing H.R. 1 is Not Enough

    Quashing H.R. 1 is Not Enough0

    Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has upset the plans of his party leaders to jam though hyper-partisan legislation and tip the electoral balance in favor of Democrats for all future elections. Manchin, a secretary of state before he was elected governor, is refusing to end the filibuster, or to vote for H.R. 1, the cynically named

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  • Quality Education is Not Rocket Science

    Quality Education is Not Rocket Science0

    • March 19, 2014

    Every week it seems I receive three or four letters from people who are establishing new schools or reforming old ones. These letters are most encouraging, and all of the writers, without exception, are dedicated to restoring what is called a “classical” education. Sometimes that implies the study of the true classics, the literature of ancient

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  • Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot

    Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot0

    For hypothetical purposes, let’s say Joe Biden had spent the last four years in the White House and Donald Trump was the challenger. What if Biden was the one being dumped from office, despite evidence that Trump supporters engaged in questionable electioneering? What if election workers in heavily Republican areas had mistreated poll watchers in

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  • Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots

    Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots0

    The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally

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