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A person walks along the Las Vegas Strip devoid of the usual crowds after casinos have been ordered to shut down due to the coronavirus, March 18, 2020, in Las Vegas. Loneliness in America can be deadly. In May 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking upon the population of the United States. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows," he said, “and that’s not right.” (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Bold & Blunt: Why go to church? One answer: To live longer

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

As more and more turn to the religion of "none," fewer and fewer believe in God, and greater and greater numbers of youth embrace socialism -- the faithless fruit of the Democrat Party -- church attendance in America is dropping. And that's having a devastating effect on Americans' health.

From left, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, United States President Joe Biden, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana stand during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

History As It Happens: Ukraine and NATO

By Martin Di Caro

Talk of Ukraine joining NATO has come and gone for more than 30 years. The most recent position to wait until the war ends may not bear fruit, either.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, speaks in support of the recall of Calif., Gov. Gavin Newsom Calif., Friday, July 30, 2021. Huckabee, flanked by former California Secretary of State Bill Jones, a Republican, and Anne Dunsmore, campaign manager of the pro-recall group Rescue California, attended a fund raising breakfast for the recall campaign. While Democratic registration almost doubles that of Republicans in the state, Democratic Party leaders fear Republicans appear more eager to vote in the Sept. 14 election. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli))

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Bold & Blunt: America in moral crisis of mounting globalism

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

If you want to stop the onslaught of globalism from destroying America's sovereignty, then quick -- pick up a Bible, teach your kids biblical truths and recapture the essence of American Exceptionalism: God-given rights. And elect Donald Trump in 2024.

Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. A top Republican election official in Arizona filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday, June 22, against Lake, who falsely claims she lost the 2022 race for governor because of fraud. (AP Photo/Alex Brando, File)

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Bold & Blunt: Standing up to the storm

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The people who stand up to the storm are the ones who go down in history, not just in this world, but in the heavenly sphere, as the true successes in life. Agree?

In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 photo, a brick memorializing Alice 'Alse' Young is placed in a town Heritage Bricks installation in Windsor, Conn. Young was the first person on record to be executed in the 13 colonies for witchcraft. Now, more than 375 years later, amateur historians, researchers and descendants of the accused witches and their accusers, from across the U.S., are urging Connecticut officials to officially acknowledge this dark period of the state's colonial history and posthumously exonerate those wrongfully accused and punished. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

History As It Happens: Witches no more

By Martin Di Caro

Connecticut's move to exonerate 12 people wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the 1600s recalls one of the most bizarre and terrifying chapters in American history.

Dr. Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale of one million copies of the famous paperback, "The Diary of Anne Frank". A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School after a leader of Moms for Liberty in Indian River County raised an objection. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, file)

History As It Happens: Otto and Miep

By Martin Di Caro

A new TV series dramatizes the loving friendship between Otto Frank and the young Dutch woman who tried to hide his family from the Nazis.

FILE - Martin Luther King Jr., gestures during his "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, as he addresses thousands of civil rights supporters gathered in Washington, Norman Hill helped coordinate the March on Washington, where King delivered his historic speech. Afterward, he decided it was time to change tactics. "I left the Congress of Racial Equality in 1964 because I felt a transition needed to be made in the Civil Rights Movement, from an emphasis on protests to engaging in political action," he said.(AP Photo)

History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part three

By Martin Di Caro

Annette Gordon-Reed and Joseph Ellis discuss the paradoxes of the American Revolution.

A statue of Thomas Jefferson holding the Declaration of Independence stands in New York's City Hall Council Chamber on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The 1833 statue of Jefferson will be removed from the council chamber by the end of the year. Some New York City Council members have called for years to remove the statue from the room where they conduct business because Jefferson was a slaveholder. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part two

By Martin Di Caro

Historian Jack Rakove explains the pragmatic as well as ideological concerns that drove the final decision to break from Great Britain.

This image shows an 1876 engraving titled "Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776" made available by the Library of Congress. On that day, the Continental Congress formally endorsed the Declaration of Independence. Celebrations began within days: parades and public readings, bonfires and candles and the firing of 13 musket rounds, one for each of the original states. Nearly a century passed before the country officially named its founding a holiday. ( J. Trumbull, W.L. Ormsby via AP)

History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part one

By Martin Di Caro

Historians Sean Wilentz and Jim Oakes assess the radical idea of egalitarianism at the heart of the Revolutionary cause.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on monitors as he addresses the nation after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, called for armed rebellion and reached the southern city of Rostov-on-Don with his troops, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. The armed rebellion by a powerful mercenary group against the Russian military was over in less than 24 hours, but the disarray within the enemy’s ranks was an unexpected morale-boosting gift for Ukraine – at a time when its armed forces needed it the most. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

History As It Happens: Prigozhin vs. Putin

By Martin Di Caro

Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived military mutiny exposed dangerous cracks in the Putin autocracy.

Song Seung-moon stands in front of a memorial to the victims of the carnage of 1948-49: a statue of islanders, their hands bound, being led away to their deaths. (Andrew Salmon/The Washington Times)

History As It Happens: Ghosts of the Jeju incident

By Martin Di Caro

Some South Koreans say the U.S. was complicit in the bloody suppression of a left-wing uprising in the earliest years of the Cold War.

Supporters of President Donald Trump participate in a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Most Republican candidates running for state legislature this year in Virginia are centering their pitches to voters on issues such as education, the cost of living and gun rights. But among a segment of contenders, former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a rigged 2020 election have become an important campaign selling point ahead of Tuesday’s primary. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

History As It Happens: The end of Trumpism? Revisited

By Martin Di Caro

No matter what he says, does, or is accused of, Donald Trump's popularity among Republicans remains steadfast.

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