Wayne Allensworth

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  October 2018

  The Angry Summer

  According to the Washington Post, McAllen, Texas is an “all-American city,” albeit one “that speaks Spanish.” So it’s small wonder that “immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town—it’s a way of life.”

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  July 2, 2018

  High Stakes in the Immigration Battle

  The presidency of Donald Trump has made some things many of us suspected for a long time perfectly clear, as a former president used to say. Our enemies no longer hide what their agenda is, and job #1 on that agenda is replacing what Archie Bunker used to call “regular Americans” with foreigners.

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• Correspondence

  June 2018

  Homesick in America

  “Darlin,’” she said, “I’ll get that. Go ahead and take it.” She was a weathered-looking woman with mousy light brown hair drawn back in a bun and the plain, honest look of one of those faces you see in Depression-era photos from the Dust Bowl, faces that don’t smile—they are just themselves, making the best of circumstances as they are.

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  January 2018

  Fire in the Minds of Men

  Recently, we marked the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, an event sparked by the revolutionary fire in the minds of men that has burned for as long as there have been men on the earth.

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  August 23, 2017

  After Lee: Charlottesville and Beyond

  Lee fought his war for all the right reasons, as a war for independence, much like that fought by his father, “Light Horse Harry” Lee, a century earlier, and he fought with honor.

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  May 11, 2017

  Sing Me Back Home

  Merle Haggard was a real American. At its best, his music was folk art, Americana poetry, each song capturing a snapshot of his people’s story. There was nothing phony about Haggard, and his music and songwriting showed what country music can be.

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• Correspondence

  March 2017

  Never and Always

  I turn down the soothing voice of “Gentleman Jim” Reeves. He looks at me from the CD case, a face thought of as handsome in his day, though Jim seems too mature and, maybe, just a bit innocent, even naive, for our jaded time.

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• Correspondence

  January 2017

  A Manner of Speaking

  My father’s manner of speaking is dying out. Not just the blunt honesty, but his accent, syntax, and vocabulary. I don’t mean saying “ya’ll”—young people still say that in Texas (and I thank the Lord for small favors)—but something else.

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  November 9, 2016

  Trump Pulls It Off

  Trump’s victory will likely energize anti-globalist, patriotic forces in Europe, building on the Brexit victory and perhaps giving the West at least a hope of saving itself from being drowned once and for all under a demographic tidal wave of immigration unleashed by the Davos cabal.

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  November 3, 2016

  What if Trump wins?

  The sheer gall, duplicity, and hypocrisy of the anti-Trump camp has, whether the powers-that-be realize it or not, destroyed whatever belief a substantial portion of the electorate still had in their legitimacy.

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• Reviews

  December 2016

  Collateral America

  "The Mirror Test" is John Kael Weston’s testament and witness to seven years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  September 2016

  Holy Among Fools

  In his latest novel, Derek Turner, author of Sea Changes and Displacement, takes his readers on a seriocomic journey with a latter-day Holy Fool. Along the way, Turner takes aim at the insanity of political correctness, celebrity culture in the Age of Twitter, and the spiritual wasteland that results from a denial of truth.

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• Society & Culture

  June 2016

  Sing Me Back Home

  Merle Haggard was a real American. At its best, his music was folk art, Americana poetry, each song capturing a snapshot of his people’s story. There was nothing phony about Haggard, and his music and songwriting showed what country music can be.

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• Correspondence

  May 2016

  Palm Sunday

  On Palm Sunday, I took a walk. It’s the first day of spring, and the sky is china blue, decorated with small cotton-like puffs of clouds. Flowers are blooming, and the ducks at the pond have laid their eggs.

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• Blog

  March 14, 2016

  Trump and the Anti-globalist Moment

  The popular revolt we are witnessing against the GOP establishment is a manifestation of patriotic forces fighting back against the globalizers.

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  March 2, 2016

  Trump’s was a proponent of “America First” in 1990

  In a 1990 Playboy magazine interview indicates that Trump has been an adherent of “America First” positions for a long time.

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  February 29, 2016

  The “Trumpening” and Conservative Christians

  Trump has done very well among “Evangelical” voters, and I think, with serious Christians in general, something that has puzzled media pundits. Why?

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  February 12, 2016

  What is “Conservatism”?

  Donald Trump isn’t a “conservative” as defined by the Beltway Right. Thank Heaven for that. So what are the defining elements of right-liberal “conservatism” these days?

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• Correspondence

  March 2016

  Left Behind

  The county that became the home of my wife’s family was established in the 1850’s. We’ll call it Parmer County, Texas. The namesake county seat boasts an impressive, lately refurbished, courthouse.

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• Correspondence

  February 2016

  Singing Our Song

  In the summer of 2014, a “surge” was on at the southern border, particularly in my home state of Texas, stimulated by the Obama administration’s signals that it was planning a mass amnesty and had no intention of enforcing immigration laws.

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