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  • Free Community College Will Only Make Things Worse

    Free Community College Will Only Make Things Worse0

    Like nearly all Americans, President Joe Biden believes that a college degree is the ticket to both individual economic advancement and uplifting the poor. To put his money where his mouth is, he has proposed $256 billion in government funding to cover two years of public community college plus cash for living expenses. In an instant, an

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  • Beware Elise Stefanik’s Moneyman

    Beware Elise Stefanik’s Moneyman0

    Did “America First” conservatives really “win” the battle over the GOP’s congressional leadership last week? Old-guard Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney may be out of power as the House Republican Conference chair. But her replacement, New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, is a swampy shape-shifter whose campaign coffers are filled with open borders, radical social liberal,

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  • The GOP’s Impossible Dream of Swaying Black Voters

    The GOP’s Impossible Dream of Swaying Black Voters0

    Blacks are intensely devoted to the Democratic Party and to corrupt Democratic machines in urban areas, at least partly because they hate Republicans, the white man’s party. It makes no difference how often Fox News tells blacks they are living on the “Democratic plantation,” or that the Democrats are the party of slavery defender John

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  • Bibi and Hamas—Only Winners in Gaza War

    Bibi and Hamas—Only Winners in Gaza War0

    “Israel is Winning Battles, Hamas is Winning the War.” So ran the headline in the Jerusalem Post atop an analysis of the Gaza war, which began, “The IDF is registering great achievements in Operation Guardian of the Walls, but meanwhile the house appears to be collapsing from within.” Hard to disagree.  Consider this New York

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  • A Response to Biden’s Stimulus Letter

    A Response to Biden’s Stimulus Letter0

    At my elbow is a letter from President Biden that came in the mail this past weekend. It’s torn in half, dotted with coffee grounds, and slightly soggy, because I just now retrieved it from my kitchen wastebasket. I rescued this letter from the banana peels, other junk mail, and a chicken carcass to read

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  • The Five Myths of Systemic Racism in Policing

    The Five Myths of Systemic Racism in Policing0

    The belief that law enforcement is infused with systemic racism is a myth. As the evidence demonstrates, blacks are not disproportionately killed by the police. Moreover, the perception of white officers as trigger-happy is also baseless. Here is a rebuttal of five popular lies. Myth 1: Blacks are disproportionately killed by the police. Blacks are

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  • Tech Steamrolls the Arts

    Tech Steamrolls the Arts0

    The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, by William Deresiewicz (Henry Holt; 368 pp., $27.99). Members of a book club at my highly selective undergraduate business school were stung by William Deresiewicz’s portrait of careerist, grade-grubbing college students in his scathing 2015 book, Excellent

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  • The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates

    The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates2

    In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing

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  • Debunking the Myths About WWII

    Debunking the Myths About WWII0

    Victory in Europe Day is observed each year on May 8, remembering the key contributions of the United States and Britain to Germany’s defeat. The following day, May 9, commemorates the Day of Victory, which focuses on the crucial contribution of the Red Army to the collapse of the Third Reich. As it happens, May 9

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