My wife decided a couple of years ago that when we turn 55, we should each pick a place we’ve…
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My wife decided a couple of years ago that when we turn 55, we should each pick a place we’ve…
Read MoreOppression is real. It appears in the blood-soaked pages of history, in the forced servitude of slavery, in gulags, in…
Read MoreGeorge Orwell warned, “political chaos is connected with the decay of language,” and today that decay is not just visible,…
Read MoreMark Twain once said that a young man who is not a liberal has no heart, and an old man…
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Read MoreThe problem with all forms of collectivism, whether Marxism, “Democratic Socialism” (a phrase its supporters rarely define), traditional socialism, or…
Read MoreWhen Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922, he looked at the chaos unfolding in the Soviet Union…
Read MoreDonald J. Trump is the most polarizing political figure in modern American history, and arguably, in global politics. He didn’t…
Read MoreAll told, the eye upon the waves, The broken boat is damaged in the storm. O Canada! your name has…
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