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  • Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty

    Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty0

    As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators.            An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits

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  • The Truth About ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’

    The Truth About ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’0

    Opening my Wall Street Journal Monday morning, I saw a color photo with the caption, “SAD ANNIVERSARY: Michael Brown Sr. released a pink dove Sunday as the family marked six years since his son, 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.” If you did not know any better, you

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  • Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?

    Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?0

    This week, I met a good friend of mine at a local restaurant, the first time we’d got together since before the onset of the pestilence. He is a Presbyterian pastor and a great lover of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was, in fact, Tolkien who had introduced us to each other, in the

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  • Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic

    Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic0

    “My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years. Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families

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  • Hundreds of Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Transgender Sports Ban

    Hundreds of Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Transgender Sports Ban0

    More than 300 female athletes are speaking out in support of Idaho’s decision to protect women’s sports from biological men. Female professional, Olympic, and National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes on July 29 sent a letter to the NCAA board of governors asking it to reject calls from LGBT activists to boycott Idaho over its new

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  • What Happened to Liberalism?

    What Happened to Liberalism?0

    In the 1970s hit show, “All In The Family”, Carroll O’Connor played Archie Bunker, a blue-collar worker and family man. Archie’s liberal daughter Gloria and her husband Mike often mocked Archie for his conservative views. Mike and Gloria were young, bright, cool, and always in the liberal camp; Archie was stodgy, opposed change, and was

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