
It’s mid-September, and I am privileged to spend five nights at a beach house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the invitation of a long-time friend, John. Two of John’s other friends, Susan and Franklin, are also here. The weather so far has brought ocean breezes, blue skies, and moderate temperatures. The house
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Congregations in China’s officially recognized Protestant church have been forced to replace God’s commandments to Moses with a quotation about the triumph of socialism, according to a religious liberty watchdog. The action literally substitutes socialism as an idol, in violation of the First Commandment. The Chinese government’s attempt to change the teachings of the 60,000-church Three-Self Patriotic
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Parents usually know when they’re being bad parents. It’s a rare mom or dad who would say in all sincerity, “Watching cartoons for three hours at night helps my toddler calm down so he can sleep,” or “My kid just doesn’t like vegetables. It doesn’t make a difference if I feed him a pack of
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In last week’s Democratic primary debate, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos asked Joe Biden about President Obama’s record on immigration enforcement. Ramos said, “you served as vice president in an administration that deported 3 million people, the most ever in U.S. history.” Democratic partisans were very upset on Twitter, but the numbers don’t lie. President Obama removed more
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has said more than once she’s “with Bernie” on Medicare for All, a reference to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ ambitious plan to nationalize America’s health care system. Unlike Sanders, however, Warren is refusing to say how she’ll pay for it. Last week during ABC’s presidential debate, she dodged a question from George Stephanopoulos, who
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M*A*S*H is the classic sit-com telling the story of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Despite the wartime setting, or perhaps because of it, this comedy contains some of the most profoundly anti-war sentiments in television history. 1. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Hawkeye is held in a psychiatric ward with suppressed memories
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