Christopher Orlet

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  • September 16, 2013
    Which of the following describes the civil war in Syria?1. The civil war in this ancient country drags on and on. At the center of the war is a Russian-backed government fighting...
  • June 21, 2013
    From the time Abraham Lincoln entered the White House nearly a century and a half ago, there has been an anti-Lincoln tradition in American life. President John Tyler’s son,...
  • June 15, 2013
    Human rights. Images of doves and bumper stickers reading â??Free Tibet.â? Campaigns to free prisoners of conscience. International organizations exposing war crimes.That was...
  • May 3, 2013
    When Rod Dreher was a boy in southern Louisiana, an eccentric great aunt took him aside one day, and taking his hand, scratched her bony finger across his small pink palm. “You...
  • April 26, 2013
    Six months ago, following the re-election of President Barack Obama, demoralized denizens of all fifty states signed online petitions to secede from the union. (Where confederates...
  • April 5, 2013
    “The march of the human mind is slow,” quoth Edmund Burke in his Speech on Conciliation with America (1775). A contrarian by nature, Burke spoke at a time when...