Just Doing Things Across a Turbulent Independence Day
A first person essay defends vigilantism as a form of local action against graffiti and what author calls “degenerate nonsense” in Maryland and at a Silver Spring overpass. It cites flag removals and anti DEI activism, praising conservative discourse, civic pride, and Founding Fathers, ending with gratitude to America’s 249 years and to the newspaper for free expression.
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Roswell
D.C
Maryland
Home Depot
Silver Spring
Trump
Canada
Ukraine
Kilmar
MS-13
Thermopylae
Robby Starbuck
DEI
John Deere
Tractor
Harley Davidson
Walmart
Starbuck
California
America
Edmund Burke
Ted Cruz
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Very
Cruz
Coolidge
Europe
Look Forward Not Left or Right in Self Worth
Rick Kraft urges readers to stop measuring themselves against others and to look inward. He compares life to the Land of Er and advocates living in the Land of Or, focusing on personal bests rather than others’ advances, with reminders from The Desiderata and personal anecdotes from marathon experience.
Pope Leo XIII on private property and social theory
Pope Leo XIII rejected socialism and defended private property, citing Rerum Novarum as a response to industrial change. The article traces his birth as Joachim Vincent Pecci in 1810, family education, Jesuit schooling, and rise to the papacy in 1878 culminating in the 1891 encyclical defending property rights and labor.
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Leo XIII
Leo XIV
College of Cardinals
Pope Leo XIII
Joachim Vincent Pecci
Carpineto
Italy
James J. McGovern
Louis Pecci
Anna Pecci
Peccis
Anna
Vincent
McGovern
Joseph
Viterbo
Anagni
Joseph Pecci
Pecci
Rome
The
Jesuits
Gregorian University
University of Sapienza
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