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Minutes before the USA is set to play Sweden in the group stage of the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France, the television camera focuses on the line of players from the United States standing next to their opponents in the tunnel, the referees in front of both teams. Each player is holding hands with a child, a tradition that demonstrates the influence these players have on youngsters around the world. The referees receive the signal and march onto the field, followed by both teams and the children. The starters from each team stand on either side of the referees,...

From last week's confirmation hearings, we learned that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan likes to eat in Chinese restaurants on Christmas. She did not say how she spends Independence Day, but evidently it does not involve reflecting on the meaning of our founding document. According to the Declaration of Independence, people create government to protect their pre-existing, inalienable rights. Yet when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., asked Kagan whether armed self-defense is one of those rights, she professed agnosticism. "I don't have a view of what are natural rights independent of the Constitution," Kagan said. In two days of testimony replete...