Category: Columns

Author and speaker Os Guinness knows America is divided, but he has a different line of demarcation than some other cultural observers.During an appearance at the Family Research Council in Washington to promote his new book: “Last Call for Liberty”, G…

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President Trump had it right when he claimed, “the system is rigged.” It was a popular refrain of his leading up to the 2016 presidential election. What Trump didn’t say was that he, his advisers, and members of his campaign staff were intimately engag…

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It’s not like it was something we didn’t already know. But what the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s did to President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is fresh proof that there are two kinds of justice operating in the …

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“First, do no harm.” That’s the most basic and sacrosanct principle in all of medicine, and Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar should take serious note of it before going ahead with a poorly drawn, “race to the bottom” plan t…

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There was a time when vaping – the practice of using a small, electronic device to inhale vapor – was thought to be the public health miracle of the half-century. While not quite up there with the polio vaccine or the still elusive cure for cancer, it …

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The Satanists have their statue. You might have heard that a Satanic sculpture was recently installed in the Illinois statehouse. A local group of Satanists decided that it needed to counteract the Nativity scene that also stands in the capitol rotu…

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Millions of anxious fans are now watching their fortunes rise or fall in the annual fantasy football playoffs. Although fantasy competition is based on actual performances in the NFL, it operates in a way that is fundamentally different from real life….

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Somewhere, Dorothy Parker is smiling. In one withering remark on Tuesday, once (and now increasingly likely future) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Donald Trump the most important civics lesson of his presidency. “Mr. President, please don’t char…

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1968 was a year desperately in need of a Merry Christmas. The year had seen student protests worldwide, the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, a chaotic Democratic National Convention, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. K…

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In case you’re wondering why you should care about a scandal-ridden House race in North Carolina – the last race on the midterm calendar that has yet to be decided – I’ll simply quote congressional expert Molly Reynolds, who’s based at the Brookings th…

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