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  • Let’s Bring Back the Chief and Stop Littering

    Let’s Bring Back the Chief and Stop Littering0

    On a recent trip from Virginia to Indiana, the friend who was driving me commented on the trash alongside the expressways. With the exception of Route 30’s lightly traveled parts, he was right. Plastic bags, fast-food wrappers, beer bottles, and other debris uglified the roadways.            The motel where we stayed

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  • Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden

    Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden0

    While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president’s attention. For the first time since 2017, Kim Jong Un test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, the largest road-mobile missile ever launched. While it flew 600

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  • Petulant Students Do Not a Utopia Make

    Petulant Students Do Not a Utopia Make0

    For several years, tantrums over allegedly unacceptable speakers were par for the course on college campuses. While the pandemic quelled the noise of these protests for a while, the recent revival of classes and extracurricular activities on campuses promises to kick the canceling back into high gear. In fact, it has already begun. Exhibit A

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  • The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast

    The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast0

    An aged Indian, an elderly woman, and her granddaughter are prisoners of a band of Comancheros in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales. The old woman, dragged behind a wagon, is almost dead from exhaustion when the chief notices Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watching them from a nearby hill. “Get ready, little lady,” he says.

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  • Sweden Now Has One of the Lowest COVID Mortality Rates in Europe

    Sweden Now Has One of the Lowest COVID Mortality Rates in Europe0

    Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike its European neighbors and virtually all U.S. states, the Swedes had opted to not shut down the economy. The country of 10 million people took what was at first described as “a lighter touch.” While

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  • Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?

    Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?0

    During the 70 years that the Soviet Union existed, Ukraine was an integral part of the nation. Yet this geographic and political reality posed no threat to the United States. A Russia and a Ukraine, both inside the USSR, was an accepted reality that was seen as no threat for the seven decades that they

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