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January 17th, 2023
Statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University
The school’s leadership would be foolish to reject a man of great character so important to its history.
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January 13th, 2023
Sea of black umbrellas w 1 US flag umbrella
What happens when progress stops? That’s an important question in a country whose self-understanding is deeply tied to the idea of progress — material, technological, political and social.
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December 27th, 2022
portrait of John Locke by Godfrey Kneller, 1697
By: Joseph Loconte – nationalreview.com – December 26, 2022 Conspiracy theories, nativism, militant religion, mob violence, a plot to topple the government — welcome to 17th-century England. English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) lived through one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in British history. At the center of the storm, he believed, was a degraded form of Christianity. “All...
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December 20th, 2022
tile mosaic of tattered US Flag on a trash can
  Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result…
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December 14th, 2022
Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act into law
Before President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, the White House played footage of the Meet the Press interview in which he first came out in favor of same-sex marriage.
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December 13th, 2022
Painting of George Washington
The United States Declaration of Independence was not yet six months old when George Washington and his Continental Army found themselves crossing the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in late December.
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November 14th, 2022
Trump & Pence after 2020 election
By: Mike Pence – wsj.com – November 9, 2022 I supported legitimate challenges to the 2020 vote counts. I also recognized that the Constitution didn’t give me authority to override the voters—and I followed my conscience on Jan. 6. To see this article in its entirety and subscribe to others like it, choose to read more. Source: www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-mike-pence-jan-6-president-rally-capitol-riot-protest-vote-count-so-help-me-god-stolen-election-11668018494
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November 10th, 2022
Abraham Lincoln speakis at Gettysburg 11-19-1863
By Allen C. Guelzo – wsj.com – November 8, 2022 The news of the great battle at Gettysburg came to Abraham Lincoln by fits and starts. But when it was finally confirmed on the morning of July 4, 1863, that Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army had been forced to retreat, the tidings couldn’t have been more welcome. To a crowd of...
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October 26th, 2022
Protesters glue themselves to Botticelli's Primavera in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 25, 2022 Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that...
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October 25th, 2022
US & Chinese Flags outside Marriott hotel
One explanation for why America is in such rapid decline with the woke normalization of censorship, cancel culture, division, unequal justice, and depravity is found in the theory of “elite capture.”
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