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Vindication But Not Yet Victory
The purpose of establishing what happened in 2020 is to make certain it can never happen again.
The Media Is Protecting Its Election Narrative
Whether one ultimately agrees with every conclusion President Trump drew is almost beside the point.
The Great Seal
On July 4, 1776, the same day the Continental Congress declared American independence, it appointed a committee to design a seal for the new United States.
One More for Chesty
His Marines knew that he would ask no more of them than he was willing to put forth himself, and that was everything he had.
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Vindication But Not Yet Victory
The purpose of establishing what happened in 2020 is to make certain it can never happen again.
The Media Is Protecting Its Election Narrative
Whether one ultimately agrees with every conclusion President Trump drew is almost beside the point.
The Great Seal
On July 4, 1776, the same day the Continental Congress declared American independence, it appointed a committee to design a seal for the new United States.
One More for Chesty
His Marines knew that he would ask no more of them than he was willing to put forth himself, and that was everything he had.
How Sleep the Brave
It is hard in easy going times to imagine what it could mean to face such an extremity: a mother forced to contemplate fleeing with her four children, pursued by hostile armies.
John Wayne
“John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe America to be.”
Known But to God
For the millions of Americans who visit The Tomb each year, the Changing of the Guard offers profound moral and political instruction.
I Kiss the Ground
You see in Capra’s films his lifelong love for the American common man. I “didn’t think he was common,” Capra said. “I thought he was the hope of the world."
Intellectual Conservatism Needs Fighters to Survive
Must conservatives play nicely with their liberal colleagues, while we critique and castigate each other whenever and however we please?
The Reader Forum: ‘How Many Democrats Wish Trump Had Been Killed?’
How many Democrat politicians wish the assassin had killed Trump? How many Americans? It is the central question.
American Moses
This story appears annually at tomklingenstein.com on April 23, in commemoration of 250 years—and counting—of American independence.
The Reader Forum: “The System Keeping Affirmative Action Alive”
The courts have ruled, the presidents have rotated, and the affirmative action regime has adapted to every one of them.