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  • We’re All on This Train Together

    We’re All on This Train Together0

    “All aboard!”            North Carolina writer Anna Raglan was delighted to find that Amtrak’s conductors still called out these words to passengers before departing the station. In her new travelogue The Train From Greenville, Raglan, a kind and wise friend of mine, describes a journey she made by rail from Greenville,

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  • What Science Says About When Life Begins

    What Science Says About When Life Begins1

    On Wednesday December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson. This case involves a Mississippi law that limits abortion to 15 “weeks’ gestation except in medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality.” During the hearing, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott G. Stewart defended the law by asserting that

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  • The West’s Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    The West’s Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name0

    With the drowning deaths of 27 migrants crossing the Channel from France to England, illegal migration from the Third World is front and center anew in European politics. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that France take back to its shores all migrants who cross the Channel illegally and come ashore in Britain. In the

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  • The Supreme Court Row over

    The Supreme Court Row over0

    The state of Mississippi argued for its right to set its own abortion laws before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a case that has the potential to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. At issue is the state’s appeal of a lower court’s decision to overturn its statute limiting

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  • A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness

    A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness0

    We’ve gone through the craziest two years I’ve ever seen. In no particular order, we’ve suffered from lockdowns and masks thanks to a virus and an overbearing government. The last presidential election brought chaos and accusations of fraud. We’ve had riots in cities, urban crime has skyrocketed, there were attempts to “defund the police,” and

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  • There Is No Vetting

    There Is No Vetting0

    Back in August, as the Biden administration prepared to dump 82,000-plus Afghan refugees onto U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assured Americans that it was “working around the clock to conduct the security screening and vetting of vulnerable Afghans before they are permitted entry into the United States” and taking “multiple steps to

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  • Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity

    Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity0

    While out on an evening walk in a local park, I heard a fellow walker coming down the path behind me, talking on his phone. His tone was even-keeled and calm … but it seemed like every fifth word was an expletive, uttered in the same calm manner. I cite this incident not because it’s

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  • Return of the ‘Law and Order’ Issue

    Return of the ‘Law and Order’ Issue0

    According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57 percent of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, only 39 percent approve. Biden’s dismal rating was recorded before the verdict came in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial—not guilty on all five counts—a verdict Biden declared had made

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  • How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas

    How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas0

    While conservative media have spent the last few holiday seasons bemoaning the “War on Christmas,” one television network is actually doing something about it. Using the cultural weapons of heartwarming settings, wholesome plotlines, and endearing characters, the Hallmark Channel has spent the last decade vanquishing the enemies of Christmas, who now lie prostrate on the

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