1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
As Americans come to dread the increasingly bromidic nature of the festive season (where, that is, they are still allowed to celebrate Christmas...
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George Washington’s First Final Farewell
A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress who commissioned him in 1775, Clement Clarke Moore penned...
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Pearl Harbor: A True Day of Infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But was the surprise attack really a "surprise"? The...
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Black Friday: Materialism in America
It’s ironic that Black Friday, which has a negative etymology and connotation, should have become one of the more anticipated days of the...
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Hidden History of the Winter War
November 30, 1939 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most misunderstood wars of the 20th Century, the “Winter War” between Stalin’s...
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The 60th Anniversary of Orwell’s 1984
Sixty years following its first publication and twenty-five since the fateful year, George Orwell’s 1984 remains a mystery to the experts. They convene...
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Time for a “Charitable Anathema”
A Republican lawyer in my fair city once told me he is a "moderate" on economic issues and conservative on social issues, which...
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Left and Right Seek Common Goals in Supreme Court
The standard ideological spectrum of a “Right” and “Left” sometimes fails to explain politics. An article in the New York Times on November...
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He Isn’t Christ the Senior Adviser
For all that we proclaim our love of "democracy" and regard monarchs as relics of the past, at all times and in various...
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New Evidence Continues Shroud of Turin Debate
The ongoing controversy over the Shroud of Turin has taken an interesting new turn, with a researcher claiming to have found text concealed...
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Union May File Grievance Over Boy Scout Volunteer
Nick Balzano, the President of the Allenton, Pennsylvania, chapter of the Service Employees International Union, told the Allentown City Council on Tuesday that...
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Catholic Bishops Fund Abortion
Catholic bishops nationwide are asking their flocks to fund an organization that promotes abortion, homosexuality, radical feminism, and a number of other liberal,...
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The Laundry Police: No-hanging Restrictions
Before the invention of clothes dryers, wet clothes were hung out in the sunshine to dry on lines strung up in many backyards....
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In Government, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
In politics, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure. The most successful men in American political history are its most spectacular failures. Consider that...
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When ‘Elvis’ McCormack Has Left the Building
On Saturday, November 7, an important three hours were spent at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester....
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