We're left to wonder how many serious and truly gifted artists these days will never get their chance because the collectors, gallery directors, and critics are forever caught up in the latest mania.
Rockwell, long dismissed as lowbrow and sentimental, is in fact a realist in the tradition of the great 19th-century American realists. The real fantasists are the academics and highbrow critics who claim that Rockwell's world didn't exist.
At least eleven people are dead after a lone gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd gathered at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday evening.
Advocates of laws permitting late-term abortion have pushed the boundaries too far by advocating for late-term abortion — essentially, infanticide. They have no one but themselves to blame for the recent passage of conservative pro-life legislation that aims for protection of life at all stages.
Episodes of division and strife are far more common than moments of unity and peace. The more you study the history of American conservatism, the less willing you are to describe it in monolithic terms.
Conservative politicians and editorialists must distinguish between, on the one hand, hostility to religious liberty and, on the other, advocacy of it.
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