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Joe Biden has a bonehead idea. In truth, he has dozens, probably hundreds, of bonehead ideas. But he has one such thought that stands out, because he publicly labeled it "bonehead" back in the 1980s. Of course, that's when his thought process was generally coherent. Usually
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The citizens of the 33 states breathed a collective sigh of relief when the results of the 1860 presidential election were finally certified. In the third round of the new ranked-choice voting system, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois was declared election winner by tallying nearly 2.5 million total votes,
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John Kasich had every reason to believe he would be given a free ride on ABC's daytime talkfest The View. And he was greeted that way by host Joy Behar who gushed, "My favorite convert, John Kasich." After all, the former Republican governor of Ohio had
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When Boston Archdiocese priest Monsignor Paul Garrity endorsed Joe Biden for president on his Facebook page, he reopened the perennial question about religion and politics: Should churches or clerics endorse or otherwise support political candidates? First, to be clear, church institutions and their ministers have the same right to engage
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In 1974, Muhammed Ali rose to the level of a transcendent sports figure when he defeated heavyweight champion George Foreman and reclaimed the premier world boxing title. Realizing he couldn't trade punches with the fearsome and heavily favored Foreman, he developed an innovative ring strategy called the "
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The sudden rise and recent wave of anti-Catholic violence has come as something of a shock. What exactly do protests about George Floyd and accusations of police brutality have to do with Catholic churches, Saint Junipero Serra, Christopher Columbus, the Good Shepherd, and the Blessed Virgin Mary? On the face
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Have you ever noticed how liberal commentators extol the value of moderate Republicans? Yes, liberals in the mainstream media share a deep affection for GOP centrists, right up to the moment they can be defeated and replaced by a leftist Democrat ideologue. Then, suddenly the importance of moderation evaporates. Civility
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Left-wing demonstrators and rioters have managed to achieve in a matter of weeks what courteous conservative thinkers failed to accomplish in a century: Knock Woodrow Wilson off his progressive pedestal. More than any other figure in American history, President Wilson embodied and popularized the 20th Century ideology known as Progressivism.