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Recognizing Juneteenth’s importance

It is customary to publish an editorial about a holiday on the holiday itself. However, today’s observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day is a worthy exception, partly because of the newness of the observance and, partly, because millions of Americans still lack an understanding of the holiday’s significance. Hopefully, this weekend, many of those millions will come to appreciate what the holiday is all about and that, for many Americans, it is about more than having a day off from work or, otherwise, a break from other responsibilities or routines. For the benefit of ...

Socialism versus nature argument still going

“Greed of the fossil fuel industry” is “destroying our planet,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says socialism creates “an environment that provides for “all” people, not just the privileged few.” “Nonsense,” says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video. Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries. He once smuggled books into the Soviet Union. What he’s seen convinces him that environmental-movement socialists are wrong about what’s ...

Politicians made deal to create debt disaster

Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy - both of whom are career politicians — made a deal this week. They agreed to let the federal debt increase without any limit whatsoever until Jan. 1, 2025. For career politicians that date has special significance: It is after the 2024 elections, but before whomever wins those elections takes office. It is a date designed to minimize debate over the debt in the days leading up to the election. Republican Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas spoke to this point at a press conference the House Freedom Caucus held on ...

Kids don’t need exceptions just fortitude

My son has been pouting about a life jacket for two days. Summer has begun and so has day camp at the YMCA. My son wanted to attend this summer camp knowing that he’d get to swim every day. He’s been taking swim lessons since last fall and has mastered skills like floating on his back and picking up toys at the bottom of the pool in the shallow end. But he’s still working on treading water and swimming strokes. His form needs work. So, when the time came for summer camp, I wasn’t surprised when he didn’t pass the swim test. Hence the required life vest. He’s beyond ...

Clicking the Heels of my Ruby Slippers

Everyone should take a trip out of the area once and a while to truly appreciate what we have right here. Why is it our tendency to think what we have is subpar? Allow me to explain. Last weekend, I took a trip to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Hickory Run State Park. Don’t get me wrong, it was a wonderful experience, and if you have never visited this area of the Poconos, I would highly recommend it, but as I looked at the mountains and walked the trails, I was thinking of home. As I have mentioned before, I am a sucker for waterfalls, no matter the width or ...

Democrats are making a crazy bet

By Rich Lowry President Joe Biden’s fall at the end of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony was a brief event. He tripped, got helped up, and walked off under his own power. Sometimes, though, a small thing is fraught with meaning — and with peril. Biden’s stumbles are not minor incidents, or a laughing matter. We aren’t talking about a manufactured narrative about President Jerry Ford’s alleged clumsiness played up on “Saturday Night Live.” Biden is 80 years old, is in decline, and has a stiff, shuffling gait that makes you hold your breath when he’s ...