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I spent some time as an editor at Regnery Publishing, during which time we published "The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin." I always enjoy rereading this account from Benjamin Franklin, which captures the history and the spirit of the American holiday. Instead of a Fast They...

While on a trip to Iowa for the Governor’s 66th birthday, Marco Rubio touched on something very subtle, yet very profound. “The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer,” Rubio said, criticizing President Barack...

Question: When is a college's "diversity program" full of fail? Answer: When a group of liberal students in Massachusetts boycotts it. According to an article by Megan Patoskie, a student at Bard College - Simon's Rock, in The Llama Ledger: Students boycotted the 7th annual Diversity Day on Wednesday,...

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These scientists must be foot soldiers in the Rebublican War on Women, since they question the need for unfettered mammograms (and free! no co-pay!), Mammograms leading to unnecessary treatment, study finds: The routine use of mammograms has led to more than 1 million women being unnecessarily treated...

Every year, young Jews from all over the world show up in Israel and volunteer to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Called "lone soldiers," they commit to the same enlistment mandated for most Israelis, male and female, and decades more of reserve duty.  As...

The astoundingly unsurprising news that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned today reveals far more about the sorry state of our local Chicago democratic leadership than the trite and pathetic story of Jackson Jr.'s downfall. Jackson Jr., son of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has been AWOL...

Some important developments. Two journalists have confirmed that Palestinians have fired a long-range rocket at Israel from next to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza.  Neither journalist, of course, made it the headline, it was just mentioned in passing.  The first was Jodi Rudgren of The New York Times...