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Born for the USA

Born for the USA

Chris Funnell

Now summer is in full bloom, and due to abundant rains, gardening has become a game of catch-up, weeds need pulling, and the mosquitoes are ferocious. Whenever I feel like giving up on a job like that to plop on the couch with a bag of chips, instead I have been inspired to persevere by the autobiography of an amazing woman and true patriot.Elly Matz immigrated to America more than sixty-five years ago from Ukraine, realizing her childhood dream to come to the land she first heard about on her father's knee. Her ancestors had gone in the other direction, migrating in the 1760s with many other settlers from Germany to the fertile farmland south of Russia. Born in 1920, three years after the Russian Revolution, Elly saw the demise of her people's way of life as the farms were being taken by the communists and divided up.

Are We All Globalists Now?
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Are We All Globalists Now?

Glen A. Sproviero

The Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, which drew immediate condemnation from both the business community and world leaders, underscores the notion that the tectonics of both culture and politics are shifting in unprecedented ways.  

As the West moves toward an ever-increasing global outlook, the intellectual underpinnings of this transition must be carefully considered and the reactions to it sensibly measured.  Is the new political paradigm one of globalism versus nationalism?  Has this new paradigm replaced the traditional right-left divide?  Are we all globalists now?

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