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Are Americans finally waking up to the threat posed by the People’s Republic of China? If so, they can accelerate that reveille call by picking up a copy of retired Marine Col. Grant Newsham’s new book, When China Attacks: A Warning to America. Newsham has spent much of his life in the Indo-Pacific region. He
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In mid-November, students at Eastern Illinois University took two days off from their rigid academic schedules for R&R. University administrators and faculty members provided their young adults with a festival of ice cream, cocoa and cookies, coloring books, yoga, affirmation cards, and yes, trikes and LEGOS. All this, writes Alex Parker
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The reincarnation of Hitler in some national leader and the heroism of Churchill, both stand-by props of neoconservatives, rear their head again in a recent commentary by Daniel Gelernter. Expecting neocons to abandon their continual reference of these props would be comparable to asking the Democratic Party to stop talking about “systemic racism” or Mike
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Americans of all backgrounds have tried Marie Kondo’s methods of decluttering their homes. Could that decluttering itch be spreading to their lives as well? I asked this question after reading an article in The Washington Post by Megan Nix, who explains her changing state of mind regarding her children’s extra-curricular activities. Like many other parents,
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In a scene from one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers, the new basketball coach Norman Dale (played by Gene Hackman) has a showdown with the self-appointed assistant coach, George. After Coach Dale tells George that his “coaching days are over,” the latter sheepishly says to him: “Look, mister, there’s… two kinds of dumb, uh… guy
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There is little doubt that Glenn Youngkin would have lost the Virginia gubernatorial race if he had not attacked Critical Race Theory and rejected the mindset that says boys must be treated as girls if they identify as female. In Loudon County, that mindset reportedly led public school officials to shelter a “skirt-wearing male student”
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