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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: What a Different Era 0
- Culture
- November 24, 2021
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on November 22, 2017.) Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of
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Playing With Fire on Russia’s Borders 0
- Politics
- November 23, 2021
Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor. Last week, that border crossing was the site of clashes between asylum-seekers trying to push through the razor wire and Polish troops resisting with water cannons. While the crisis
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Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving 0
- Family
- November 23, 2021
Okay. This is just sad. Nearly half of all Americans will ask guests to provide proof of vaccination status this Thanksgiving, Andrew Stanton of Newsweek reports. Others are asking the unvaxxed to provide proof of a negative COVID test, while half of American households will require guests to wear masks during the Thanksgiving festivities. I
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What Gibbon Got Wrong About the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 0
- History
- November 22, 2021
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‘We Gather Together’ in a Time of Oppression 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2021
I sat down at the piano the other night to get my fingers warmed up for a gathering at which I was supposed to play. Knowing that Thanksgiving was fast approaching, I flipped through a hymnal, searching for a few season-appropriate songs, and alighted on “We Gather Together.” As I played and sang, the words
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Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right and Righteous 0
- Politics
- November 19, 2021
In judging the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, set aside for the moment Wisconsin law under which he is being tried, and consider the natural law, the moral law, the higher law written on the human heart. In terms of values demonstrated and the deeds done that night that Rittenhouse shot the three men who attacked
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