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Fair was marvelous Editor: I have to thank Copper Shores for the wonderful "free lunch" on Senior Day at the fair. The food was great and the servers were gracious. The fair itself was marvelous. I enjoyed it immensely. So many interesting events and the animals were so well kept and the handlers were patiently answering our many questions. I'm so glad I went. Charlotte Brinkman Civilizational erasure To the Editor: Henry David Thoreau said, "The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men." Even William Federer, well-known historian, warned back in 2011: ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

PARIS — Gloria Steinem sent me a personal message not long ago thanking me for my "generous and encouraging" words that "make it worth getting older." Not worth it enough, apparently. Because one of the most visible faces of American second-wave feminism has just passed away peacefully at ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. ...

Rich Lowry

Columns

A decade later, Colin Kaepernick is as tiresome as ever. To mark the 10-year anniversary of his kneeling during the National Anthem, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is out with a new memoir, "The Perilous Fight." (Get it?) In an interview with NBC News in advance of the book's release, which he clearly imagines as part of a vindication tour, he proved himself as committed to woke racial politics as ever. He told NBC that his protests were about fighting "police killing black folks" and "systemic oppression." He added that he was thinking — not very modestly — about ...

Georgia Garvey

Columns

It's a time for fear. The United States is engaged in an undeclared war — one of which the public does not understand the true extent. The president has gone in without Congressional approval. Military leaders struggle with cabinet members, politicians and themselves about whether and how ...

Tim Graham

Columns

In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It's easy to find these whole geographic ...