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Restoring America’s greatness

The pages of tomorrow’s history are written by today’s decisions. History is littered with failed republics and democracies. The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire. Democracy in ancient Greece turned into an aristocracy. This didn’t just happen in ancient history. In 1961, a new constitution in Venezuela divided the government into three branches. But in 1999, Hugo Chavez swept to power and rewrote the country’s constitution. He eventually became a dictator. The Founding Fathers were well aware of the fleeting nature of our form of government. In 1787, Elizabeth Willing ...

Wife suddenly leaves with children

Dear Annie: My wife (40) and I (53) have been married for almost a year and a half. A few weeks ago, she moved out and took our daughters, ages 3 and 4, with her. When she left, she said they’d be back that evening. They haven’t returned. I haven’t seen or spoken to my girls in almost a month. When I ask to see or talk to them, my wife says she’s asked the children and they’ve said no, and that she doesn’t want to pressure them or cause them stress. My wife insists she’s protecting them because they’ve heard arguments between us. We’ve disagreed in front of the ...

Weighing woman’s cancer prognosis

Dear Dr. Roach: My daughter, who’s 44 years old, was recently diagnosed with rectal cancer. It’s stage III and contained. She has no cancer in her liver, lymph nodes, rectum or colon. Her doctor is going to start her on a more aggressive chemo than he first thought of, then radiation. Since the cancer’s contained, once it’s removed, would her survival rate be better than someone whose cancer had spread to other organs? Would there be recurrences? — N.F.B. Answer: I’m sorry to hear of your daughter being diagnosed with colorectal cancer at such a young age. Normally, ...

Horoscope: Wednesday, July 1

The connections are uncanny, unmistakable and strong. Aries (March 21-April 19) Resilience is one of your superpowers. You have learned how to adapt and bounce back. Every challenge has taught you something useful, and today you handle something so easily, not in spite of those challenges but because of them. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Nobody else can bring your exact combination of experiences, interests, obsessions, humor, grief, curiosity and insight to a project. Also, you don’t need everyone to agree with your choices. They don’t have to make sense to anyone but you. Gemini ...

Not your grandparents’ Democratic party

Following last week’s primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, read a list of things he said those far-left candidates stand for. To conservatives, and Independents, the list sounded like a grand jury indictment. Johnson said the Democrat-Socialist effort to take over the party and re-fashion it in their image is not limited to deep blue New York City, but is surfacing around the country, especially among younger people who have never had to live under these systems, mostly because ...

Free speech is vital to democracy

“If liberty means anything at all,” wrote George Orwell, in a preface to “Animal Farm,” “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Generations of students have been taught that lesson. Yet some of the world’s most robust democracies are in danger of forgetting it. The UK’s recent decision to deny entry to two American media figures, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, is the latest retreat from free speech by a country that should know better. Piker and Uygur, far-left critics of Israel who have been accused of antisemitism, had been invited to speak at ...