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There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of a Jewish woman exiting a cattle car at Auschwitz. She looks around at the hellscape, smells the burning flesh from the crematoriums, and…

Monday was Labor Day in America, not Memorial or Veteran’s Day, but on my bike ride this morning I saw flag after flag flying from pillar to post on single-family…

I’m what is called a “lapsed Catholic.” But it is the Roman Catholic Church that has lapsed into irretrievable corruption. Then again, was it not corrupted from its inception?

Like most people, I’m finding hope hard to sustain. If you’re not grappling with hope and hopelessness, you’re either a dead conduit who has given up on humanity, or you’re…

Evidence that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Americans and Canadians culturally comes in the tragic form of a trio of British Columbian thrill-seekers dying in a plunge…

A palpable pall hung over the land yesterday, the 4th of July, the day America celebrates its birth as a nation. Ostensibly from uncontained wildfires in the region, the pallor…

If I had any doubt that woolly-headed Democrats are just as responsible as heartless Republicans for America electing this cretinous president, it was removed by a young 40-year-old man from…

At bottom, “localism is the belief that communities can and should find solutions to their own particular problems, within their own particular contexts.” The seeming irrefutability of this idea is…