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Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates. Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, explains Trump's Virtues.

Fortitude, Patience, and Meekness: Three Virtues We Often Separate, but That Belong Together Msgr. Charles Pope • July 20, 2015 • There is an important interplay and balance between the virtues that many modern minds set in opposition to one another. False dichotomies often prevail when the subtlety of virtues are lost or their meanings are grasped in simplistic or inaccurate ways.Consider three virtues that are related and which enable and moderate one other: fortitude, patience, and meekness. To most people, these virtues seem more opposed than related. Today, fortitude conjures up an image of a fearless warrior in battle,...

Fortitude: - backbone, refers to the strength of character and resoluteness that permits one to face opposition unflinchingly. Go Bibi! During events celebrating the liberation and re-unification of Israel's Capital city of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu let the world know-- "Jerusalem will never be divided again."---- yahu, to his credit, has firmly rejected a notion put forward reportedly by Obama, that "UN flags" be flown at the Western Wall. Not long after, the clueless dhimmi French regurgitated this: "The declaration which the Israeli PM issued yesterday derives from prejudice regarding the final status agreement," -Foreign Ministry spokesman Frederic Desagneaux. "In...

Fortitude: - backbone, refers to the strength of character and resoluteness that permits one to face opposition unflinchingly. Go Bibi! During events celebrating the liberation and re-unification of Israel's Capital city of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu let the world know-- "Jerusalem will never be divided again."---- This from A7 News: "Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, "The flag that flies over the Kotel is the Israeli flag... Our holy places, the Temple Mount -- will remain under Israeli sovereignty forever.” "Between 1949 and 1967, the religious sites in the City, as well as all of Judea and Samaria, had been under the...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 15, 2006 -- Army leaders praised military families here during ceremonies this week for standing solidly behind the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team during its 16-month deployment to Iraq. Ashley McCulloh and her son, Brooke, welcome home their husband and father, Army Capt. Timothy McCulloh, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, after his 16-month deployment to Iraq with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Courtesy photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Secretary Francis Harvey told families of brigade members during the “Arctic Wolves’” redeployment ceremony here Dec. 12 that the Army recognizes their sacrifices and will...

The president jogged at the White House with a soldier who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq. He met with the 2006 Democracy Award winners. Bush addressed the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in Washington regarding the line item veto he wants Congress to pass. Secretary of State Rice is in Pakistan. (Despite the security escort she has, this is still a dangerous place for her to visit and I applaud her personal courage.).