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Your House Is Not Just an Investment
It takes approximately thirty-eight seconds for Miranda Lambert to make me cry. Her 2010 country ballad “The House That Built Me” is a tearjerker from the second line: “Ma’am,...
Boomer–Zoomer Housing War
When I heard the price the retired man was asking for his home, a full $80,000 over online estimates of its value, I flinched. The market is hot in our small town, but was it that good?...
Is Trump Playing the Long Game on Abortion?
When news broke last week that the Trump administration had quietly restored federal Planned Parenthood funding, which he had previously cut, pro-life conservatives were understandably upset. Yet, as Elizabeth...
Expanded Abortion Pill Access Puts Death in Women’s Hands
Can Trump be trusted on abortion?” I wrote in these pages last fall. One year later, the Trump Food and Drug Administration approved another generic version of mifepristone, the...
How Abortion Lost Its Cool
Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory shocked many. The deplorables won the day, the elites were disgraced, and history was shown to have at least one more chapter. As...
Can Trump Be Trusted on Abortion?
A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump. Balancing his own more pro-life...
