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With former President Trump gearing up for another presidential run in 2024 and rumors flying about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spinning up a campaign of his own, it’s anyone’s guess how the next presidential election is going to play out.
Read moreWe live in a world where “rights”, “choice”, and “freedom” are buzzwords that mean different things depending on who wants them and which ones they want. Nowhere has this become more evident than in the realm of public education.
Read moreDespite our “About This Page” blurb at the top of the page and the giant “Opinion” header floating above all the page’s content, we are still told certain viewpoints do not belong on the opinion page.
Read morePublic support for arming and funding military operations in Ukraine has dropped substantially from a year ago, and public opinion has turned decidedly in favor of non-intervention. A new AP poll shows over half of Americans reject outfitting Ukraine with weapons and sending financial aid to the country, and objection is highest among Republicans.
Read moreWhat if your kids have to grow up without you? Chances that could happen just got a lot better. A terrifying new Fifth Circuit Court decision has just ruled that even if you have a protective order, the man who abused you can still have a gun.
Read moreEarlier this month, Americans reflected on the 20-year anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that took the lives of all seven astronauts on board.
Read moreAssaults on intellectual property are crushing American innovation.
Read moreIn a pure republic or a democracy, governors derive their authority solely from the consent of the majority of the governed. Benjamin Franklin called the groundling structure proposed by the Constitutional Convention “… a republic, if you can keep it.” He realized the fragility of such a framework from knowledge of other failed republican structures of past history in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Europe, and from apprehension of divisive forces already swirling around him. Despite George Washington’s admonishment against factionalism, political parties—so-called Federalist and Democratic-Republican— immediately sprang out of divergent interests in the new political society.
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