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I’m not saying add the movie to Pure-Flix, but don’t throw the Barbie out with the bathwater

Tavia Jean Breeze-Courier Writer Recently, considerable debate has been surrounding the content of children’s films and their potential impact on religious values. The release of the new Barbie movie has ignited a similar discourse. However, rather than dismissing the film as anti-Christian, it is vital to recognize the presence of Christian-based undertones within the movie’s…

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Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

DAVID SHRIBMAN There’s a reason the government can’t stop this column from being published. Actually, there’s a person who is responsible for the government being unable to stop this column from being published. His name is Daniel Ellsberg. He died recently at age 92, but his legacy lives on, a credit to him and an…

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The Trump surge

Susan Estrich What does it say about politics today that Donald Trump is surging in the polls? That’s right. In the wake of an indictment in New York City, in the midst of a rape trial, the former president of the United States is literally surging in the polls, opening up a 36-point lead over…

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Why do we obsess over transgender issues?

Froma Harrop From the amount of discussion, you might think that a third of all fifth graders were transgender — that is, they don’t identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. Actually, the transgender population is very small. Only 0.6% of Americans — far fewer than one out of every 100 — identify…

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, We have reached a new low! We are taking care of illegal immigrants at the cost of billions a dollar a year, just here in Illinois. Yes, billions of dollars a year, plus the unknown cost of the illegal flow of drugs by some of these illegal immigrants and the negative impact on…

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FROMA HARROP

Social Security on the cutting block? “We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 160 Republican lawmakers that recently called for making cuts in Social Security. Among other things, the group wants to raise the age at which a…

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ANN COULTER

Hey! where’d all the browns go? “Yet again, we’re seeing evidence of what happens to Black and brown people from simple traffic stops.” — Ben Crump, attorney for Tyre Nichols’ family. “It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single…

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ANN COULTER

There’s a 0.00002% chance you’ve got the wrong man The use of DNA to arrest Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four college students in Idaho reminds me that it’s time to bring the death penalty back in a big way. Notwithstanding the absence of a single example, the possibility of executing the “wrong man”…

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FROMA HARROP

Population shouldn’t be a Ponzi scheme China’s shrinking population, we are told, poses an economic threat to that country, as well as an economic drag for us. Here are the numbers: Deaths exceeded births in 2022 by 850,000. That leaves over 1.4 billion Chinese. That’s over four times the U.S. population occupying about the same land…

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For more crime, vote Democrat!

ANN COULTER New York Mayor Eric Adams would have been the Democrats’ runaway choice for president if only he’d kept his campaign promise and cut crime in the Big Apple. No mayoral candidate talked about “safety, safety, safety” more than he. As Adams told MSNBC during the campaign: “Public safety and justice is the prerequisite…

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