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Rachel Bovard: Requiem for the Pro-Life Movement

Is the pro-life movement on Capitol Hill dead? If it is, it’s congressional Republicans who have killed it. Funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—where nearly all federal pro-life policy resides—will pass a Republican Congress this month without a single new pro-life policy attached to it. Specifically, the bill would continue to […]

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Joe Mokler: Trump just the worst symptom of a sickened political system

Placing his self-interest above the nation’s and engaging in potential criminal activity, Donald Trump, a cultural and anti-establishment fraud, is turning Republicans into sycophants and destroying the party’s brand. Yet, despite all the drama, the president isn’t the country’s biggest problem. He’s just the latest fake change agent leading a government whose lack of political […]

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Refuting ‘facts’ in Letter to the Editor

Editor, In response to a recent Letter to the Editor, “Columnist deserves criticism for his skewed view”: Donald Trump lost the popular vote by almost three MILLION votes. The fact that he (barely) won the Electoral Collage is a national travesty highlighting the undemocratic way that system works. Mr. Haggett goes on to criticize President Obama for things […]

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Gary Scott Smith: When Teddy Roosevelt saved football

For more than a century baseball has been called America’s national pastime, and Major League Baseball is flourishing today. However, in recent decades, football—college and professional—has surpassed baseball in popularity and prominence. For many men and some women, fall weekends and football are synonymous. Both the National Football League and major colleges attract huge audiences […]