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  • Supreme Court’s ‘Faithless Electors’ Decision Safeguards Electoral College

    Supreme Court’s ‘Faithless Electors’ Decision Safeguards Electoral College0

    In a decision issued Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish presidential electors who break their pledge to support the presidential candidate preferred by the citizens of their states.  The ruling affirms the Electoral College as an important part of our constitutional structure – one that balances popular sovereignty with the benefits of

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  • My Fourth of July: Hope for America

    My Fourth of July: Hope for America0

    My Fourth of July began when I placed six small American flags at intervals along the sidewalk of the front porch of my daughter’s house. As I pushed the flagpoles into the grass, I thought of my deceased wife, who had purchased these and other American flags, and who for years had decorated the lawn

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  • Does Fighting for Freedom Save Lives or Lose Them?

    Does Fighting for Freedom Save Lives or Lose Them?0

    Over the weekend, while keeping one eye on the weeds in my garden and the other on the news, I noticed an interesting trend: the media is slowly backing away from its dire coronavirus predictions. My first indication of this came via The New York Times. Reporter Katherine J. Wu, who holds a Ph.D in

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  • Abandoning ‘America First’ In Afghanistan

    Abandoning ‘America First’ In Afghanistan0

    With Americans growing ever more divided amid national upheaval over racial inequality and a global pandemic, it has perhaps never been more apparent that the United States has no business trying to fix the world with so many problems on our own doorstep. Whatever his faults, President Trump at least seems to understand this. Even

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  • The American Revolution Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic

    The American Revolution Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic0

    One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox. The book is Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. It’s a brilliant and thrilling adventure story by a man who worked his entire life to make the

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  • Something Beautiful: The Path of Success to Lifelong Learning

    Something Beautiful: The Path of Success to Lifelong Learning0

    Suppose you’re a successful engineer who now wishes he had taken more English literature courses in college. Suppose you’re a stay at home mother of four, and your sixteen-year-old daughter has taken an interest in classical music, a subject as foreign to you as Portuguese. Suppose you’re a bright homeschooling teen who wants to learn

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  • Snoop Dogg’s Cheap Shot at Black Conservatives

    Snoop Dogg’s Cheap Shot at Black Conservatives0

    Snoop Dogg recently dusted off a 1970s sit-com reference and combined it with a racial slur to take a cheap, ill-informed shot at 11 black conservatives. Referring to his 11 hand-picked nemeses as “The Coon Bunch,” Snoop Dogg reiterated a slur which today is used similarly to “Uncle Tom” as a way to brand non-liberal

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  • No, the French Revolution Was Not a Good Thing

    No, the French Revolution Was Not a Good Thing0

    Is America headed for a French-style revolution along the lines of the one in 1789? Let’s hope not. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said as much in a tweet comparing Democrats to French revolutionaries. It appears the French Revolution has now come to the Democratic Party based on initial primary results from New York and Kentucky.

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  • Leading Epidemiologist: COVID Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’

    Leading Epidemiologist: COVID Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’0

    Dr. John Ioannidis became a world-leading scientist by exposing bad science. But the COVID-19 pandemic could prove to be his biggest challenge yet. Ioannidis, the C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention at Stanford University, has come under fire in recent months for his opposition to state-ordered lockdowns, which he says could cause social harms well

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