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Editorials and columns

Reflections on the US Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful and respected tribunal in world history. It commands the power of judicial review to invalidate acts of the president or Congress. Its relative impartiality, compared with the legislative and executive branches, finds expression in ...

Don’t let Marxists rob us of our history

To conquer a nation, first rob it of its history and heroes. That's a quick summary of Marxist strategy. President Donald Trump used the 250th-anniversary celebration of our nation's independence to call out communism as the gravest threat we face, and to warn that Marxists are trying to ...

What a 700-Year-old fresco can teach America

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government," I had one of those moments. Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings ...

AP warns against Trump’s ‘darkly political’ anti-communist remarks

Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. ...

The pursuit of happiness, spiked

WASHINGTON -- The Trump whirling dervish has come and gone to Turkey -- to demand NATO hand over Greenland! -- leaving a city exhausted by his wild Fourth of July displays. But first, it was so great to see legions of World Cup soccer fans all over the world, at all hours, cheering on their ...

The right and left need to control the radicals in their own parties

It's starting to sound like we're in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies for the Communists and the Fascists. Stalin's Soviet Union supported the former, Hitler's ...