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Author Dr. Marvin Folkertsma
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The lamps are lit again and Europe is at peace; but it is the peace of senescence.
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At 0227 hours on the morning of June 6, 1944, Lieutenant Robert Mathias saw the red light flash above the…
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When President Obama made his famous declaration about how he was confident that “that the Supreme Court will not take…
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Amidst the hoopla, cheers, and ear-piercing whistles of enthusiastic approval for Republican presidential nominees at this year’s Conservative Political Action…
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In “The Wild One,” Marlin Brando plays Johnny, a leather-jacketed vagabond sporting a black-brim hat perched on his head at…
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The ink was barely dry on the asterisk in Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s rant about taking out those “sons-of-b*tches”—referring to Tea…
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President Obama’s tour through the Midwest in a coal-black Darth Vader-mobile begs comparison with past presidential excursions. I’m thinking of…
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Amidst the rhetorical pyrotechnics surrounding July’s debt-ceiling debates, another controversy streaked across the sky like a comet, flared for an…