Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

The writer has the uncanny ability to bring people of all stripes together in one place — saints and sinners alike.

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The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. It’s been ...

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For nearly two decades his father served as mayor of his hometown ... activists to pardon a white Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old Black man, ...