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They said it couldn't happen: Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president. And, predictably, the media has a collective case of the vapors. Ezra Klein (of JournoList fame) has penned a piece for Vox titled, "Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics
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The major news events of the past few weeks (and longer, frankly), have a common theme: Our culture matters. And we're losing our grip on it. I don't just mean American culture; I mean western culture — that which has produced Greek philosophy, Roman political theory, the
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Did you hear the news? The five most liberal justices on the Supreme Court — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and trusty swing voter Anthony Kennedy — handed down a decision that makes clear their support for the right to bear arms, free and clear of oppressive,
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In the aftermath of the Orlando shootings, a man named Buckley Jeppson posted on Facebook about his experience visiting a Portland, Oregon, gun store to ask why people purchase AR-15 rifles. The salespeople offered several answers — target practice, hunting — none of which convinced Jeppson, who politely concluded that the sale
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Last week, my son's sixth-grade Spanish class held an end-of-the-year Hispanic food fiesta. Everyone was asked to bring something, and so I took the opportunity to pick up homemade ice cream and fruit bars from La Rosita, a local neveria (loosely translated as "ice cream shop"
congress
Good intentions are not the same thing as good results. Nowhere is this as clear, consistently, as in matters of government policies. Failed government policy is without question a bipartisan affair, but liberals and progressives tend to hide behind their intentions far more than conservative lawmakers do — and to resist
Abortion
Compassion — or a skewed definition of it — has become one of the left's most insidious weapons in the ongoing culture war. Like so many other arguments that the left makes these days, the notion of "compassion" has been twisted. And conservatives find themselves completely disarmed when
Donald Trump
Is anyone not surprised by Donald Trump's ability to plow through the Republican primary process like a hot knife through butter? This is one for the history books, and scholars will be writing about it for decades (especially if Trump manages to pull off a win in November)