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February 1st, 2021
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 18, 2021 This feature is powered by text-to-speech technology. Want to see it on more articles?Give your feedback below or email audiofeedback@wsj.com. As the Trump Presidency ends in the disgrace of the Capitol riot, an effort is already underway to erase everything in the last four years as disgraceful too. That’s a...
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January 26th, 2021
All of us must speak the truth — including painful truths that unsettle not only our foes but also our friends and ourselves.
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January 25th, 2021
Former President Trump’s 1776 Commission has issued a report that summarizes “the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country.” It will be the only such report – President Biden swiftly dissolved the Commission by executive order after being sworn into office on Wednesday.
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January 22nd, 2021
Forty years ago, on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was sworn in for the first time as president of the United States. He faced turmoil at home and abroad: His Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter, had presided over the worst recession since the Great Depression, staggering rates of inflation and unemployment, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran hostage crisis, and...
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January 19th, 2021
On the 2020 election, Democrats are acting like Mafia dons with a whole lot to hide, threatening witnesses and fixing juries.
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January 19th, 2021
Just hours before leaving the White House, President Donald Trump declassified documents related to Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation into Trump campaign officials during the 2016 election and well after the Trump administration took hold in January 2017.
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January 7th, 2021
The US Congress early this morning certified the Electoral College vote making Joe Biden the forty-sixth president of the United States. Vice President Mike Pence confirmed Mr. Biden’s victory at 3:41 a.m. ET.
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December 17th, 2020
A retrospective on President Donald Trump’s four years in office must be put in perspective of what he himself promised to accomplish when he ran: Make America Great Again. Source: President Trump: Promises Made, Promises Kept
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December 17th, 2020
By: Peter Thonemann – wsj.com – November 1, 2019 Two decades before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the Roman poet Virgil ended his epic poem of Roman origins, the “Aeneid,” with an unforgettable image of violence. In the final lines of the poem, Aeneas, the founder of the Roman race, whose descendants are destined to rule over the peoples of the...
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November 20th, 2020
Four hundred years ago this month, a group of courageous Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic on a ship seasoned from years of service in the English Channel to arrive in America. Their ship was the Mayflower. On it, it bore a people with characteristics — bold, daring, foolish, devout — essential to the founding of a new nation that would become...
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