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  • Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin

    Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin0

    Recently I spent several days visiting my sister and her husband in their home in Western North Carolina. Both are retired, love gardening and landscaping, and as a result, have spent long and arduous hours making a mini paradise of their property. Here are flower beds, plots for growing tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables—this year

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  • Why I’m Happy I’m Sad

    Why I’m Happy I’m Sad0

    “Gloom, despair, and agony on me, Deep dark depression, excessive misery….” Those were the opening lines to a song based skit from the country music and comedy show “Hee Haw” back in the 1970s. Somehow the words and tune have remained stuck in my mind all these years. Those lines sum up my feelings regarding

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  • Two Studies on Immigration and Race, With Surprising Details

    Two Studies on Immigration and Race, With Surprising Details0

    Two mainstream think tanks have published new studies on immigration and race in America that come to the typical, safe conclusions. But a look at the data inside shows something more interesting. A new Cato Institute report defending immigration begins by contending that immigrants are unlikely to negatively affect states’ fiscal health. But within the study’s findings,

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  • The Media Is Returning to Common Sense… or Deeper Propaganda

    The Media Is Returning to Common Sense… or Deeper Propaganda0

    I noticed a strange occurrence lately, which started when several articles began to appear asking if we should still wear masks outside. My first reaction to this was, “What do you mean ‘still’?! You don’t need masks outside!” But apparently, officials in states other than my own think you do. Slate, it appears, kicked off this questioning of

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  • The DC Statehood Power Grab

    The DC Statehood Power Grab0

    “How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?” asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question: “Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” And Congress’ saying that D.C. is a state would equally contradict truth and reality, as our nation’s capital lacks

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  • Politics Is Not the Only Game in Town

    Politics Is Not the Only Game in Town2

    For many conservatives today’s political news may resemble the early days of World War II: endless defeats and little to suggest future victories. Make no mistake, the defeats are real, but the situation is not as bleak as it may appear. The left triumphs in the political realm and this makes its victories public. By

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  • Understanding the Psychology of the WWII Concentration Camps

    Understanding the Psychology of the WWII Concentration Camps0

    The novelist Martin Amis is the son of Kingsley Amis, whose Lucky Jim (1954) was a spectacular success. Noting the father’s “brilliance and ‘facile bravura,’” Atlantic critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft asserted that Martin “misunderstood his hereditary gifts when he turned from playful comedy to ‘the great issues of our time.’” Among his “great issues” is that of Nazi concentration camps,

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  • Saying Goodbye to Papa

    Saying Goodbye to Papa0

    I first became a huge fan of Ernest “Papa” Hemingway back in my twenties. I read his short stories, nearly all his novels, and his memoir, A Moveable Feast, recounting the time in Paris when he was just beginning his adventures in fiction. I also read several biographies about him, including Carlos Baker’s classic Ernest Hemingway: A

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  • Three Words No Politician Wants to Say

    Three Words No Politician Wants to Say0

    Google “magical words thank you please,” and you’ll find short lists of words and sayings that make us better people both inside and outside of our homes. “Please,” “Thank you,” You’re welcome,” “Excuse me,” and “I’m sorry” head up these lists, as they should. Add “I love you” in special situations, and you have the

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