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Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are Kabuki television

Japan’s Kabuki theater tradition is over four-centuries-old. Kabuki performers are heavily made up, ornately dressed and engage at ...

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When the IRS plays politics, you pay for it

Articles in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post recently detailed how the ...

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The joke continues for public education in Mississippi

Newspapers work to include a myriad of subject pieces to attract readers. For some, there is news, while ...

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The deep state has deep roots

This country’s 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, led the nation through the Roaring Twenties, a time of social upheaval ...

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Life lessons from “The Book of Juv”

By Randy Weeks “Christianity ain’t all that hard. You just do the right thing, tell the truth and ...

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An ode to the welfare state

Not being a subscriber to the New York Daily News, I cannot attest to the quality of that ...

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Portland: “Lord of the Flies” redux

The occupation of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office for five weeks in June and July, ...

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Socialism plus ignorance: A toxic mix

Last month’s victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, in New York City’s 14th Congressional District Democrat primary over 10-term ...

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Mass Hysteria: The left melts down

One of the unfortunate byproducts of the dumbing down of America is the increased susceptibility of the populace ...

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Lone federal judge controls U.S. Immigration for nine months

In October 2017, Federal District Judge Derrick Kahala Watson, appointed by then-President Barack Obama in 2013, issued a ...

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America was designed to be a work in progress

By Charlie Mitchell Did a teacher make you memorize the Declaration of Independence, or at least the first ...

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I’m Conservative, but don’t assume you know what I believe

By Christine Flowers Earlier this week, a producer from a Philadelphia television station called to inquire if I ...

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Crying kids aren’t just at the US border

By Michael Reagan I understand why the national media is so obsessed over the story of children of ...

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Supreme Court finally brings online sales, use tax law fairness to Main Street

By Sid Salter In a 5-4 decision that strangely crossed traditional judicial ideological lines, the Supreme Court last ...

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Does the name of something change its meaning?

Have you ever heard the question “What’s in a name?” When people ask that, it is often meant ...

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The things we do for friends, and to find ourselves

I entered the Bargain Barn with great trepidation. It had been a long while since I had jumped ...

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Repurposing and recycling things left behind

In the door pocket of my car is a much folded and unfolded map of Lafayette County. With ...

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Taking moment for my wife and a Pony

These days it’s rare we experience magic. Or possibly, with the constant bombardment and immediate access to info ...

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How is the NCAA vs. Ole Miss like Mueller vs. Trump?

Steven Godfrey’s excellent May 30 piece in SBNation, “Crooked Letters,” is an even-handed analysis of the NCAA’s gross ...

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On things remembered and forgotten

Some gossamer memory recently unleashed a veritable flood of questions. For some reason, the question of the cars ...

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A Texas taco hunt with some crawfish on the side

My toes pushed hard off the running board of our SUV, sweat dripping from my forehead, as I ...

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Hasn’t mankind already killed enough Jews?

On the few occasions when Iran has taken a break from chanting “death to America,” it tells the ...

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