Recently, as I was watching "The Music Man" with an impossibly young Robert Preston on cable, I was struck with the truth of an old adage: the more things change, the more they stay the same…
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Trivializing Prayer
The recurring debate concerning government sponsored prayer must rank among the least edifying of public conversations, and that is regrettable because the issue of governments proper role in our lives is truly the issue of our time.
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Those Silly Lawsuits
Civil libertarians – who find political correctness as offensive as state-sponsored censorship – can frequently be heard to express the opinion that there is, after all, no constitutional right not to be offended. There are all sorts of annoyances that we can and must put up with as the price…
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Season’s Greetings
Dear Friends … I can’t believe that it’s time for our annual Christmas letter! How time flies! As you know from last year’s letter, son Joe was elected to the state legislature, where he has been leading the fight against the gay agenda. If you have been reading…
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Autonomy
The Star has asked if there is a constitutional right to die. But framing the issue in that way is misleading. There is no enumerated right to die. just as there Is no right to hold particular religious beliefs or to marry outside one’s race or to join a political action group.
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