Observing a Special Memorial Day
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Observing a Special Memorial Day

My father, Harry S. Cathey, was a World War II veteran. He left behind letters to my mother written from France and Germany in 1944 and 1945. Some of the words and designations are obviously in a code they had between them—he could not identify locations in the combat zone. What comes through above all...

Virginia Governor Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019
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Virginia Governor Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019

You would have thought Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam had been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, given the reaction to what appeared to be a page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. Both the Democrats on the Left and the “virtue-signaling” Republicans and movement conservatives—that is, the near entirety...

Who is Really Responsible for Political Violence?
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Who is Really Responsible for Political Violence?

For the past year or so—and especially since the badly constructed pipe bombs (none of which went off) that were sent to various Democratic Party leaders and to certain national leftist personalities, and then the hate-filled rampage by a crazed anti-Semite at a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh—the mainstream media, including many of the supposed conservative...

From Silent Sam to Screaming Selfies
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From Silent Sam to Screaming Selfies

In the wake of the August 20 toppling of Silent Sam, a monument to North Carolina students who volunteered to become Confederate soldiers in 1861-65, our television screens were filled with images of scraggly, rough-bearded Millennial men and unkempt women screaming profanities and shouting imprecations about racism, white supremacy, and the dangers of “fascism.”  Which...

What has Happened to Masculinity in 21st Century?
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What has Happened to Masculinity in 21st Century?

On Saturday morning, September 22, I switched on Fox News and there witnessed a gaggle of five garrulous women, all talking at the same time, all  vacuous and empty headed, and all saying basically nothing—a so-called “panel” discussing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the last-minute and largely-unfounded accusations hurled...

Cultural Marxists and the Stranglehold of “Race”
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Cultural Marxists and the Stranglehold of “Race”

One of the subjects that most self-styled conservatives seem incapable of discussing in any depth—indeed, it is one they often flee from like mice before the hungry house cat—is race.  The general feeling always seems to be that anything a prominent conservative might say on the topic—unless he is offering some sort of fearful confirmation...

That Royal Wedding, Reverend Michael Curry, and the End of England
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That Royal Wedding, Reverend Michael Curry, and the End of England

Like many Southern boys growing up in the 1950s, I recall fondly my father reading stories to me of “Stonewall” Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, of the “Gray Ghost,” Colonel John Mosby, and of Marse Robert Lee who led Confederate armies during the War for Southern Independence. But I also reveled in the exploits of...