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  • I Remember

    I Remember0

    I was in the air when the first tower was hit; I watched the two towers fall, stupefied and enraged, alone in my hotel room in Norfolk. After my business was done, I went to the eerily quiet Norfolk airport to begin the drive home. I remember watching contrails in the sky driving across Virginia,

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  • How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible

    How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible1

    Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more

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  • Fate and Accountability: The Choice Makes Us Who We Are

    Fate and Accountability: The Choice Makes Us Who We Are0

    In “The Appointment In Samarra,” his brief retelling of a an ancient Mesopotamian tale, W. Somerset Maugham offers this look at fate: Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now

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  • How to Change Victimhood Culture in a Few, Short Years

    How to Change Victimhood Culture in a Few, Short Years0

    My father lost his job while I was in grade school. Due to an economic downturn and attempts to start a business, my family lived without a regular paycheck for over two years. It was rough. We tightened our belts and became experts in frugality. But one doesn’t feel the big pressures of economic distress

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  • How the Media and Police Could Discourage Mass Shootings

    How the Media and Police Could Discourage Mass Shootings0

    Another public shooting came and went last week in West Texas. Close on the heels of the El Paso Walmart shooting, the Odessa shooting had some peculiar aspects, including its spontaneous eruption from a traffic stop and the killer’s shooting of hapless civilians from a moving vehicle. Like all mass shootings, this led to substantial

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  • What Is a Washingtonian Foreign Policy?

    What Is a Washingtonian Foreign Policy?0

    Wars and rumors of wars abound. Some want us to see Russia as our perpetual enemy. China, realistically, can be counted as a threat. But to what end? Then there is the desire for a permanent alliance with Israel. Others talk of a U.S. military incursion into Venezuela or Iran. And, of course, there was

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