The New York Times editorial board still believes in the fairyland of Stalinist dictatorship of the proletariat in which all the shots are called by the collective government’s commissars. The Times editorialists implicitly are horrified at the prospect that New Orleans might be rebuilt by free-market forces responding to present-day economic reality. Their prescription...
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On June 24, 1948, after having isolated West Berlin inside of the boundaries of Communist East Germany, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin suddenly cut off all road shipments into the city, essentially laying siege to it with the expectations that it could be starved into subjection and thus added to his expansionist regime. In a...
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There are now only two American World War I veterans left--two out of 4.7 million. Kelly, a reader, sent me the article below, writing "When I was a boy, every father was a World War Two or Korean War veteran. Every grandfather was a World War One veteran. We so easily forget the terrible sacrifices...
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"In the American family, the mother comes first, then the kids, then the dog, then the cat, and then the father."--Tomas, my Cuban immigrant father-in-law
Recently California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, and numerous California and Connecticut legislators took strong measures to protect goldfish, bunny rabbits, cats, dogs, and hamsters like...
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An Israeli military investigation has announced that the use of cluster bombs during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict last year did not violate international law. The UN General Assembly stated that Israel’s use of the bombs were “shocking and immoral.” Israel holds that “the use of the weaponry was a concrete military necessity.” U.S. State Department...
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A Basler BT-67, chartered from Canadian air carrier Kenn Borek Air for the National Science Foundation (NSF), a United States government agency, has crashed whilst attempting take-off during a support assignment in Antarctica. None of the ten people on board were injured, but the modified Douglas DC-3 was substantially damaged in the accident. The...
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A zoo worker is dead and two visitors are seriously injured after a Siberian tiger escaped from the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California in the United States and attacked three people who were inside a cafe. The tiger was immediately shot dead by police who were called to the scene. They found...
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The temperature in Perth, Western Australia reached 44.2°C (111°F) making it the hottest December day since records commenced, and the seventh hottest day ever recorded in Perth. This combined with the yesterday’s second hottest Christmas day of 40.7°C (105°F) and Monday’s 35.9°C (97°F) makes this the hottest three-day Christmas period since records began. The...
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Fathers Are Trivial
About 10 years ago, I drove for two hours to pay my daughters a surprise visit at their summer camp. Almost nothing was better than seeing their smiling faces every time we “visited” each other (moms don’t visit their children). When I arrived, I went immediately to see the camp director. I...
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Over the course of the past decade or so, leftist malcontents have set their ideological sites against Christmas no doubt as the holiday points to the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ who can often help or motivate the individual to work through many of their own problems without an over reliance on government...
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“Nearly every American liked Christmas a lot, But the far-Left, who lived in self-righteousness, did not! The Left hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be their heads weren’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that their jeans were too...
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Background: Tim Russert's Wisdom of Our Fathers has hundreds of stories men and women tell about their fathers. It's a remarkable book--to learn more, see my co-authored column America's Father Hunger (World Net Daily, 10/13/06).ÂÂ
This story is "He loved his family too much to say good-bye," from Carole Harris Barton of Burke, VA, about her...
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