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Dear editor,

I was delighted to see the article about the Old Dodge County Jail having been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It occurred to me that your readers might be interest in some of the history of the road to the register. [Full Story »] 

The entrenched regime of racial preferences in American academia is a fit subject for study by the nation’s top psychiatrists.

It’s never OK to discriminate on the basis of race in American life, except when it is. Schools lionize the 1964 Civil Rights Act in their classrooms, and then violate it in their admissions offices.

This system is bad for the moral fiber of academic institutions, bad for the ideal of race blindness in America, and bad, the latest research suggests, for the minorities supposedly benefiting. It is good only for salving the guilty, race-obsessed consciences of university administrators and appeasing the PC gods and the usual interest groups. [Full Story »] 

The two Boston Marathon immigrant bombers were both on welfare. I thought welfare was supposed to be a helping hand up.

Of the 200 “top” American colleges, not one had a conservative commencement speaker this spring. Harvard had liberal television star Oprah Winfrey. Conservatives need not apply. Dennis Prager calls it the liberal fear - they won’t prevail if conservatives are allowed to be heard, resulting in zero conservatives among commencement speakers at America’s “top 200” schools. [Full Story »] 

If only all congressional committees were so inspired.

The committee charged with putting to paper the reasons the Continental Congress had resolved to declare independence from Britain turned to Thomas Jefferson to do its drafting. If the reasons for that choice weren’t particularly profound -- Jefferson’s talents as a writer were widely recognized, and no one thought the declaration as important as other pressing revolutionary business -- its consequences assuredly were. [Full Story »] 

James Kirkpatrick, the great VDare.com writer, says, “’Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ is Anarcho-Tyranny in Action.”

“The government has met the enemy and it is us - the historic American nation.”
James Kirkpatrick 6-17-13 [Full Story »] 

Before Barack Obama became president, he reveled in the irresponsibility of his powerlessness. He could denounce Bush administration counterterrorism initiatives from a glorious position of civil-libertarian purity and posit the need to strike a perfect balance “between privacy and security.” [Full Story »] 

No one, students or faculty, seems to remember Barack Obama at Columbia University. You would figure someone would recall seeing him there. I have the answer. He was America’s first distance learning student, as innovative as his media hype has claimed, using long distance learning and the Internet before either had been invented. Another Obama first - he studied online - what a guy! [Full Story »] 

Dear editor,

As incompetence, deception, duplicity and dishonesty become the hallmarks of the Obama administration and scandals that pop up literally every day now, it is important not to lose sight of the biggest tragedy that has ever enveloped our nation, the cover up in the murders of our ambassador and three other brave Americans directly linked to a terrorist attack and not by some stupid You Tube video as attributed by the commander in chief, the secretary of state and others in the presidents cabinet just for the sake of winning an election. [Full Story »] 

Dear editor,

My family and I needed some “on-the-spot” assistance on May 21, 2013 and quickly learned that Mike Grenade and the Christian Life Center in Eastman (thanks Bonnie and Joy) are the “go to folks” in your community. I applaud their quick response and willingness to help out-of-town visitors. Your small town is represented in a big way by this wonderful group of people. [Full Story »] 

What you are now hearing across the land is a collective whine. Blue-state Democrats are upset that Texas Gov. Rick Perry dares come and play in their sandboxes, and worse, threatens to “poach” jobs from their states. [Full Story »]