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Editors at National Review Online criticize a Democratic congressman’s recent publicity stunt. It used to be that politicians exploring a presidential campaign would show up at the Iowa State Fair…
Matt Vespa writes at Townhall.com about a sign that California’s politics might be undergoing a significant shift. I’ll believe it when I see it, but the sentiment that things have…
Martin Kulldorff writes of the strange response he and other health experts received from U.S. media and big tech when they spoke from their expertise about the initial and ongoing…
John Podhoretz takes aim in the latest Commentary magazine at the use of the word “unprecedented” to describe everything from 9/11 to Facebook to Donald Trump’s presidency. When every major…
Gene Epstein of Barron’s is the latest reviewer to heap praise on Jason Riley’s book Please Stop Helping Us. A member of the editorial board at The Wall Street Journal…
It’s not as catchy as The One, but “President Selfie” is an interesting nickname for Barack Obama. John Kass probes the president’s self-absorption in a Chicago Tribune column. It’s not…
Saith the Sylva Herald: How Jackson County residents in the future will play, exercise, and enjoy open spaces is being decided now as the recreation and parks department crafts a…
I chastised veteran N&R reporter Taft Wireback for his outrage over graffiti in the greenway tunnel, but today’s front-pager on the International Civil Rights Museum is a pretty good read.…
The Greensboro Four on Feb. 1, 1990, the 30th anniversary of their historic sit-in. To my knowledge, this was the last time they would appear together in public. The N&R…
Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley makes a grudging admission today: The Framers meant for individuals to be able to own guns. But he’s not really happy about it: This does…
Here is George Will’s excellent article on Jackie Robinson. A sample: There is Lt. Robinson’s 1944 refusal, 11 years before Rosa Parks, to move to the back of a bus…
We listened to the speech with our five-year-old son (born 38 years to the day later) a couple months ago after reading about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.…