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All Americans ought to be encouraged to read Nonie Darwish’ new book “Wholly Different – Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values”.  Because, as Andrew Klavan has suggested (and we noted in an earlier posting), whether we like it or not, humanity is at war over the nature of...

A concept attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt said (paraphrasing):  “small minds think about people; average minds think about events; and great minds think about ideas”. Watching America’s political convulsions in 2017, it seems as if the unusually ‘large’ personality that is Donald Trump is dragging America’s and the world’s great minds down...

Some good friends have posted heartfelt and earnest laments about President Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education. On the other hand, school choice supporters, along with informed advocates for millions of low income and mostly minority children, are ecstatic about her. To paraphrase Daniel Patrick Moynihan and...

Okay, we get that the Democrat/media/Hollywood complex hates Donald Trump; we get that they still can’t process that Donald Trump won an electoral landslide; and we also get that Americans collectively may have become numb to the idea that an elected leader might do what he said he would do. But...

It doesn’t take advanced training in psychology to grasp the concept of “projection”—attributing your own flaws to your enemies as a weird way of  denying those flaws in yourself. Liberal elites cannot stomach Donald Trump as the President-elect of the USA.  They cannot abide any notion that Trump won fair and...

Here’s hoping Senator Ted Cruz and others will follow through on legislation to defund America’s financial support of the UN.  The immediate impetus for Cruz’ actions was of course the Obama administration’s betrayal of Israel, but the case for abandoning the UN has been as plain as day for decades. Just...

Lost amid the usual year end punditry was this gem from Andrew Klavan, writing in the Wall Street Journal: “Faith That Upholds Humanity—and Liberty”. When you’re ready to ponder something deeper than the usual political commentary, do take the time to read it.  It is profoundly relevant to the challenges facing...