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Burning bridges
When Alexander the Great died at the age of 32 in 323 B.C., his once unbeatable army began a 2,900-mile withdrawal from India and headed home to Macedonia. As they retreated, the empire they had created collapsed behind them. To | Read More »
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Flash points
Taking a dozen grandchildren on vacation means that we buy cereal by the ton and milk in multiple gallons. I was in the cereal aisle, squinting at the list of ingredients on a brightly colored box of “high-fiber multigrain something,” | Read More »
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UN-believable
Here in the Carolina Lowcountry, there are few things lower in the esteem of American citizens than the United Nations. While filling the tank of my SUV this morning, I noted the following about the pickup truck at the pump | Read More »
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Independence Day 2012
As is our custom, millions of Americans celebrated Independence Day this year with family, friends and neighbors. Here in Purcellville, there was an old-fashioned parade down Main Street, followed by a barbecue, a church service to pray for our nation | Read More »
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Decision time
It’s been a week of big decisions in our nation’s capital. The Supreme Court’s 5-4 verdict on Obamacare was the biggest story for politicians, pundits and the so-called mainstream media. That the justices reaffirmed the constitutional authority of Congress to | Read More »
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Russian reset, part II
According to press reports from sycophants in the mainstream media, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin had a productive, 2-hour, private meeting of the minds during this week’s G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Don’t believe it. The Obama-Putin meeting did | Read More »
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Transparent incompetence
Senior members of Congress — both Republicans and Democrats — are reacting with shock and awe at the tsunami of national security leaks emanating from the Obama administration. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, | Read More »
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The Passing of a Patriot
The classical definition of a hero is a person who puts himself at risk for the benefit of others. That certainly describes Adolfo Calero, who died June 2 at the age of 80. The obituaries of this remarkable man hardly | Read More »
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Arab Summer 2012
The once highly touted Arab Spring has become the Arab Summer — scorching hot, unbearably dry and very brutal and bloody.
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Memorial Day 2012
As a crowd of high-school students offloaded from the tour bus for a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial aka “The Wall,” he yelled, “There are no good wars!” Hemmed in on the crowded sidewalk, I tried to ignore his | Read More »
