Author: John Scott Lewinski, Washington Examiner
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The disconnect between the big-city nonprofit world and the suffering people it purports to serve
It’s difficult to fix any problem, personal or societal, without the direct involvement of those afflicted. While that seems a logical assumption, many of the nation’s activist groups and nonprofit organizations, fighting everything from homelessness to unfairness in the criminal justice system, often fail to involve direct input from those “boots on the ground” men…
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Sigh, everybody’s a smartass
During the years I kicked around Hollywood grabbing writing gigs here and there, I would attend a weekly theater gathering — Tuesdays@9, produced by the Naked Angels. Writers would bring in about 10 minutes of material to workshop with actors who turned up to get in a little scene work. The whole event was an excuse…
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Civil War reenactment: There are some echoes of the 1861-65 conflict amid the nation’s current divisions
Former Russian Prime Minister and longtime Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently made a bold prediction that the United States would soon collapse into a second civil war brought on by the 2024 presidential election. While such dire prognostication would usually be dismissed quickly as hyperbolic post-Soviet propaganda spewed by a government hit hard by…
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Great White North: Canada’s stakes in the US presidential election are considerable
When the world snoops on the relationship between the United States and Canada, they see a complicated marriage. Longtime allies who haven’t seen a shot fired in anger between them since the War of 1812 juggle significant societal differences. Star-spangled banners wave at maple leaf flags across what was once termed the world’s longest unguarded…
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Wisconsin swing-state blues (or reds)
For much of America’s history, the patch of green just to the west of Lake Michigan was best known for cows, beer, and Lambeau Field. Today, as the 2024 presidential race rumbles toward November, Wisconsin is a jewel in the Electoral College crown as one of the seven swing states. Alongside Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada,…




