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Editorials and columns

The Washington Post’s Sunday slobber over Rosie O’Donnell

The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they're the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don't play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with 10 color photographs on the glorious Rosie ...

Changing wildlife communities

From the historical Native American use of our forests and waters, to the shipping of copper, lead, and sawtimber starting in the late 19th century, to the modern day, land use—and our interactions with the ever-changing local flora and fauna—have changed over time. I was reminded of ...

The quiet of the creche

Over 800 years ago St. Francis of Assisi in his prayerful worship of Jesus gave us the first nativity scene, or creche, in Grecio Italy at Midnight Mass. His first creation of the scene was living; that is, live life size ox and ass, real straw and a real manger. The Holy Gospel was chanted ...

Cry the beloved Europe?

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only increases ...

Don’t go wobbly on China

As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People's Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America's ...

The poinsettia is a Christmas flower burdened with a bad name

When visiting San Antonio with my family, I came prepared. If we were going to take our son to see the Alamo, I wanted to make sure he learned the whole history. I did not want him believing a caricature of U.S. history that only served to enshrine so-called white heroes. Especially since my ...