Category: EDITORS DESK
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Christmas in 2015 - The Public Square
Christmas is a Season when the self encounters itself. There is a solitary quality about Christmas, as well as one of great merriment spent in joy with family…
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The ISIS Mindset and Ways to Undermine ISIS Propaganda
Propaganda plays a key role in ISIS recruitment and sustainment of its base. It is critical to understand the inner workings of the ISIS mindset. Ideological…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Undergraduate in America These Days - RED
The “Show Me” state has shown us how stupid campus political correctness has become. But Missouri University is just one among many. Yale and other hotbeds of…
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Missouri Breaks - Blue
Six months ago the The University of Missouri in Columbia was no doubt best known for its world class School of Journalism (arguably the first school of its…
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Hypocrisy - November 2015
Medecin sans Frontier (Doctors without Borders) is a remarkable organization of medical professionals who set up hospitals in remote and very often dangerous…
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A Thanksgiving Perspective on Leadership
The Public Square holds there is a great need for the return of virtue as the defining quality in public service - and leading well. In one year, we will…
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Columbus Day - Why is This Still a Thing? - BLUE
There has been no lack of criticism of our ongoing celebration of Columbus Day as a Federal Holiday since it became one . . . during happy end times of the…
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Celebrating Columbus - RED
Early on the morning of October 12, 1492, Juan Rodriguez Bermejo, a lookout aboard the caravel “Pinta,” saw a dark shape on the western horizon and shouted,…
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Hypocrisy - October 2015
It was so refreshing to watch the Democratic debate on Tuesday night and to compare and look back at the Republican’s. The Democrats, all of them spoke of…
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Bernie Inspires Youth
A few days ago, I went to see a Bernie Sanders rally, live in Manassas. If I had to sum it up in only one word, I would use ‘inspiring’. Bernie Sanders has a…
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The Present Character of the American Government
The present character of the American government today is the leading issue of our time. Our Founders had an astute view of human nature and of power. They saw…
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Who Should Go on the $10 Bill?
O n a lighter note, the candidates in the latest Republican Presidential Debate were asked, “What woman would you like to see on the $10 bill?” as the Treasury…
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Good Cops . . . and Others
When introducing her unanimously supported “Resolution in Appreciation of Police Officers,” Middleburg’s Vice Mayor Darlene Kirk reportedly noted, “ . . . the…
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With God on My Side - Blue
“And you never ask questions When God’s on your side” - Bob Dylan If patriotism is, indeed, the last refuge of scoundrels, special insight into the mind of God…
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KIM DAVIS – CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
She’s easy to make fun of, isn’t she? Frumpy-looking and, with four marriages and several extra-marital affairs, not exactly a poster child for traditional…
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Hypocrisy 9/15
Guatemala a couple of weeks ago did a remarkable thing: a sitting president Otto Perez Molina was stripped of presidential immunity and arrested for…