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Larry Thornberry is a writer in Tampa.
by | Feb 25, 2023

Here’s a challenge for red-blooded and freedom-loving Americanos. Name three of life’s simple but real pleasures that progressives aren’t working to stamp out. OK, name one. The uber-nannies are at their villainous work again, proving, as if further proof were…

by | Feb 16, 2023

California — uh, make that Florida — here I come. Sorry, Billy Joel. The number of people in a “New York state of mind” has dwindled down, in the words of the song, to a precious few. The ranks of…

by | Feb 8, 2023

It should be clear, after the Republican clean sweep in Florida on November 8 and disappointing results elsewhere, that Florida is now the center of the Republican universe. Politically, the state is a brighter red than Santa Claus’s holiday suit….

by | Feb 1, 2023

That scrambling you hear is not Tom Brady trying to avoid hot pursuit by 290-pound tacklers with ill intent. It’s sports writers and sportscasters scrambling to find what they will write or talk about now that Tom Brady has called…

by | Jan 31, 2023

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy By Alexander Rose (Mariner Books, 288 pages, $29) The Lion and the Fox is not a John le Carré spy thriller. But it…

by | Jan 22, 2023

Friday a skilled and courageous Navy flier was recognized for his valiant actions more than 70 years ago. The delay was unconscionable, but the award richly deserved. On November 18, 1952, flying his F9F-5 Panther off the carrier Oriskany, 27-year-old…

by | Jan 20, 2023

In campaign speeches across the fruited plain, conservative candidates talk a good anti-woke game, pointing out rightly what a danger radical leftist cultural schemes are to what’s left of American civilization and promising to do something to stop them. Too…

by | Jan 13, 2023

Monday night in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the TCU Horned Frogs had about as much chance against the fired-up Georgia Bulldogs as an armadillo has against a steel-belted radial. I’d repeat the score here, but the children might still be…

by | Nov 12, 2022

A Heart Full of Headstones: An Inspector Rebus Novel By Ian Rankin (Little, Brown, 335 pages, $28) After over-dosing on political reading, writing, and viewing for weeks (it seemed much longer, and it starts again soon), I felt justified in…

by | Nov 6, 2022

I can’t vouch for it. But I’ve been told that savvy litigators give young lawyers the following courtroom advice: If the law is on your side, argue the law. If the facts of the case are on your side, argue…

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