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December 19, 2024
Biden Wanted to Save AssadIt was galling, to say the least, to see President Joe Biden, taking credit for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Biden (and his administration) did everything he could to preserve Assad by restraining Israel and preventing it from...
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March 15, 2024
The tragic death of Laken Riley should not be in vainAt the recent State of the Union Address by President Joe Biden, President Biden was challenged by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia to “say her name.” She meant, of course, the name of Laken Hope Riley, the...
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June 25, 2023
The joy of high school sports: Preserving the nation locallyI joined Jasper nation on the long voyage up to Victory Field in Indianapolis, the epicenter of Indiana and of Indiana baseball, to support and applaud our young stalwarts, the Jasper Wildcats, at State, a great team from a great town (population: 16...
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March 7, 2023
Obama, Trayvon, and Race in AmericaThe rhetoric and uproar over the beating death of Trye Nichols by five Black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, demonstrates how badly the “conversation” over race has deteriorated. One would think that a crime involving Bl...
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February 16, 2023
Restoring MarriageThe Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. It had broad support from both parties including then-senator Joe Biden. DOMA prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marria...
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December 8, 2022
The American Left Sows the Seeds and Waters the Roots of Anti-SemitismAfter the tragic killing of 11 elderly Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, the members of the Jewish left, along with allies in the Democrat party and the media, have been unrelenting in their efforts to pin the act on President...
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August 28, 2022
The battle and the glory of...tennis?It was not a sport I grew up with, being well beyond the finances of my struggling family back in the Bronx. And there were not many tennis courts anyway in those crowded neighborhoods. I accommodated myself early to the three w...
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May 24, 2021
There Is No Moral Equivalence between the Palestinians and IsraelOn May 14, 2018, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel, a modern-day miracle, the U.S., under President Donald Trump, fulfilled a promise made by Congress in the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed by a 95-3 vote in the Senate to mo...
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April 11, 2021
Red States: Our Last Bastion of DefenseThese are treacherous times. Our principal institutions have been overtaken by the left. However dysfunctional and disturbed they may be, leftists rule us, and they grow more authoritarian and imperious as we speak. The...
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January 7, 2021
Indianapolis Has Fallen: A Red State Capital City Degrades Itself to Blue City LevelsI had known this mid-size metropolis since the seventies when I lived here as a medical student, attending the Indiana University School of Medicine. Then, Indianapolis was referred to as India-no-place or Naptown. But Indianapolis has co...
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October 9, 2020
Crush and Destroy CultureI have always felt that the term “cancel culture” was far too mannerly and tame. It scarcely captured the degree of hatred the Left and its social-media zealots unleashed with any transgression from woke orthodoxy. Even doctri...
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July 22, 2020
BLM RepublicansI watched the interview of my friend and former political opponent, Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, on the Tucker Carlson show recently regarding the topic of BLM and police reform. I know Senator Braun because we are both ...
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April 22, 2020
My Neighbors HuntMy neighbors hunt. They can survive in the forest, hills, lakes, and rivers, here in Indiana. They understand the world of nature, its vicissitudes and savagery. Appreciating its transcendent beauty and cadences, they also accept it...
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January 13, 2020
Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never TrumpersOne could perhaps have excused them their earlier indiscretions of November 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable conservative pedigree. Indeed, Donald Trump had been a fairly typical New York liberal D...
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December 25, 2019
Chanukah, Christmas, and Western civilizationChanukah, the festival of lights, is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the victory of the Maccabees (or Hasmoneans) over the powerful armies of the Seleucid (Greek) Empire under King Antiochus IV. King Antiochus, in 167 BC, in a show of force, forba...
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November 6, 2019
The 1932 and 1939 Project: How the New York Times Covered up Murder and GenocideWith the launching of the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” the paper of record seeks to reframe American history. Formerly we had foolishly assumed the birth of the nation to be July 4, 1776, with the writing of the Declaration...
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October 4, 2019
What is the Purpose of the GOP?A year ago I was locked in a political race for the Republican nomination for Congress from Indiana’s 8th district. I was running against then four-term incumbent, Larry Bucshon. I had also run in the prior election cycle in 2016....
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September 16, 2019
Reparations or Liberty?Among many telltale signs of the tectonic fissures dividing the nation, perhaps the most telling is the near universal call by prominent Democrats and others for reparations. This refers to a compensatory payment made to the descendants of...