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Let's make today's unpopular Pipe Cottage statement: the federal government is instituting protectionist tariffs that will benefit a few industries at the expense of others. (And for those who want to further study why protectionist tariffs are a bad idea, read John C. Calhoun's opposition to the Tariff of 1828.) I don't think many people know how tariffs work. But let me offer a simple history lesson. The purpose of tariffs at the point of the Founding was to simply fund the central government…
Every year the United Methodist Church sponsors a hiking chaplain on the Appalachian Trail. This year’s chaplain is Stephen Hawley (trail name “Father Time”). Last week he baptized a fellow hiker in Fontana Lake. Church can happen anywhere!
I started crying just a few paragraphs into this. These days it seems like there's so little hope in the world, and then you read about people like Dr. Levonson and it restores just a little bit of faith in humanity. Thank you for publishing this.