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The GOP Should’ve Nominated A Mormon Ex-Governor…They Just Nominated the Wrong One
Sometimes a body just gets tired with it all. I mean, there’s only so much dysfunction and ignorance a man can take before it starts to weigh on him, even if it’s coming from folks he doesn’t agree with. Every… Read More ›
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If It’s a Correctional Facility, What Is Capital Punishment Correcting?
On the morning of May 23, 1701, Captain William Kidd found himself kneeling alongside a motley assortment of unwashed felons in the chapel of London’s notorious Newgate Prison, being lectured by a man of God about the atrophied condition of… Read More ›
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Mali Mali Oxen Free
While it is never expressly said, our foreign policy and media coverage convey it clearly enough: you only matter if you matter to us. The world is filled with pestilence and draught and war and famine and the United States… Read More ›
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Finding Unity in HIV
If one puts much stock in the old axiom that says “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” it would be safe to conclude that we as a nation have lying on the canvas for the past half century or… Read More ›
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A Mitch For All Seasons
As difficult as it may be to imagine in this age characterized by the sound and fury of Congress’ self-seeking fiction, there was once a time when our elected officials spoke with a passion tempered by experience and governed by… Read More ›
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Preventing HIV Prevention
About a half century before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had the chance to chronicle the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an unassuming anesthesiologist named John Snow informally introduced the wonders of deductive reasoning to the people of London. Snow, an English… Read More ›
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Down & Out In West Virginia
“But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and… Read More ›
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Massacred on the River Bank
From one body to the next there was little in the way of variety; nothing to suggest that what had happened here was anything less than slaughter. Some of the corpses had been shot through the temples, others through the… Read More ›
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The Irony of Israel
All too often, members of the American punditry mistake the unfortunate or the coincidental for the ironic. For example, Washington Times Communities contributor and pro-lifer Paul E. Rondeau recently penned an article in which he described the, “titanic irony” of… Read More ›
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Kim Jong-Un & The Democratic People’s Republic of Awesome
If you were hoping that the world’s youngest and fluffiest head of state would prove himself to be less of a caricature of a Bond villain than his demented father, I think you can stop now. Kim Jong-Un, the 29… Read More ›
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