The image of Adrian Peterson’s son’s legs has ignited a welcome cultural conversation. This is unusual. Most of these contrived …
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How many times have we heard laments such as “women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent …
Read More »Republicans Shouldn't Pander to Hispanic Voters
Our national debate on immigration policy centers on a paradox. We must become aware of it and deal with it. …
Read More »NAACP Kills the American Dream for Blacks
BCN editor’s note: please contact the author for reprint permission. Has the NAACP become an association committed to partisan politics …
Read More »A Plea for Constitutional Literacy
Earlier this summer, I managed to perplex, perhaps even offend, a famous TV interviewer when I declared I want a …
Read More »Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choice' for 2016
(BCN editor’s note: This is a Ken Blackwell column from August.) Hillary Clinton’s famous “listening tour” of Upstate New York …
Read More »Let's Unite and Fight ISIS
Having studied and taught history, I tend to look at things with a slightly longer view and in a broader …
Read More »Late-Talking Children
Anyone who knows what anxiety, and sometimes anguish, parents go through when they have a child who is still not …
Read More »Sympathetic, Accommodating View of Bad Behavior Hurts Our Race
Rather than waiting until specifics about the Michael Brown case are known — such as autopsy results, detailed officer reports, …
Read More »Multiculturalism Is a Failure
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that in Germany, multiculturalism has “utterly failed.” Both Australia’s ex-prime minister John Howard and Spain’s …
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