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  • 2020: America’s Wake-Up Call

    2020: America’s Wake-Up Call0

    Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at

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  • Russian Bishop Calls Biden’s Transgender Statement Blasphemous

    Russian Bishop Calls Biden’s Transgender Statement Blasphemous0

    Propagating gender reassignment among children should be a criminal offence, Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, the chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, recently declared on “Russia 24” TV network. His comment was made in response to Joe Biden’s recent statement of support for the supposed right of children to choose their gender. “The

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  • Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness

    Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness0

    Combine Moses and a Harvard discourse on cancel culture and one encounters a perfect storm for prophetic words. That’s exactly what happened on Feb. 16, 1999, when Charlton Heston, movie star and president of the National Rifle Association, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Harvard Law School. The film actor who played Moses and Ben Hur

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  • Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOP?

    Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOP?0

    Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious “disgrace” and hinting at an Alamo-style finish on Jan. 6, when Congress votes to declare Joe Biden the next president, Donald Trump is not going to go quietly. The anti-Trumpers and “Never Trumpers” celebrating at Christmas 2020, in this “dark winter” of Joe Biden’s depiction,

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  • The Subtlest Form of Protest

    The Subtlest Form of Protest0

    There is a lot of discussion of late regarding various methods for protesting against government-mandated COVID-19 lockdowns or the results of the 2020 presidential election. Everything from singing in grocery stores to concentrated letter-writing campaigns has been suggested here at Intellectual Takeout. Such brazen displays are allowed in the U.S. because it still has some

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  • The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus

    The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus0

    This country is not governed by a “Republican Party” and a “Democratic Party.” It is governed by an establishment “uniparty” that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill.    While Americans are distracted with the holidays, Beltway crapweasels stuff their legislative

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  • Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’

    Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’0

    I was sitting in my local coffee shop when “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” began playing over the café’s speaker. Perhaps because this Christmas is so fraught with fear and uncertainty, this song caught my attention. I pushed aside my other thoughts and gave my full attention to the music, hunting down the lyrics

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  • How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective

    How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective0

    I was stricken with COVID last month. You probably expect me to now explain how awful it was, how I laid around in bed, suffering in agony, and was nearly carted off to the hospital. But that would be a lie. The real story? I had some congestion, did lots of sneezing, and was quite

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  • Can Democracy Hold Us Together?

    Can Democracy Hold Us Together?0

    If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together?       Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal with the pandemic, Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not mention

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