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Lee Habeeb
Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories"
Articles by Lee Habeeb
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Celebrating Churchill the American
The International Churchill Society is honoring “The Old Lion” in Philadelphia this week.
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What Abraham Lincoln and the Tech Revolution He Led Can Teach Us Today
The past—and lessons learned from visionary Abraham Lincoln and the Industrial Revolution—may be our best window into our future.
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From Poverty and Discrimination to Great Opera Houses: Simon Estes Story
He made his debut on an opera stage at the West German Opera House because America was less welcoming to Black male opera singers.
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Dolly Parton RIP: Story of Her Most Famous Song Embodies Her Life Story
Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston could not have come from more different backgrounds, but one song brought them together.
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Socialism vs. Federalism in 21st Century—and Future of Electoral College
If blue states keep driving Americans to red states, the 2030 Census will produce a continued shift in the electoral map.
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Celebration of Unknown Heroes of Revolutionary War at Freedom Plaza in DC
It was ordinary people—we the people—who fought and won America’s war for freedom, forging a new nation unlike any other.
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Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: Revolutionary War Story Worth Remembering
The HMS Jersey was gutted and turned into a floating prison, moored in Wallabout Bay, near the Brooklyn, New York, waterfront.
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Story of the Man—and Company—That Turned Gas Stations Into Destinations
For Arch Aplin, the success of Buc-ee’s was predicated on two basic ideas: “At Buc-ee’s, let’s be clean and let’s be friendly.”
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True Sportsmanship, Classical Christian Education and Media Intransigence
How CBS managed to miss the heart and soul of the story—and the power source behind it, God—is anyone’s guess.
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The Prayer That Led to One of America’s Most Beloved Movies, ‘Braveheart’
Randall Wallace’s film was birthed by a prayer—not as a writer pleading for inspiration, but prayed out of desperation.
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The Governor and the Ex-Con Turned Music Star: Resurrection Stories Collide
Two men who grew up in different worlds mere miles apart in Tennessee are forever bonded by an earthly pardon.
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Story of George Washington and Italian Immigrant Painter Who Honored Him
America’s Cincinnatus and America’s Michelangelo are forever connected in a fresco adorning the dome of the U.S. Capitol.
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The Unlikely Story of How the Super Bowl Came To Be
Lamar Hunt: If all those rich guys wanted to start teams in cities that didn’t have NFL franchises, why not start a second league?
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Story of GI Who Saved 200 Jewish Soldiers From Certain Death in WWII
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Story of GI Who Saved 200 Jewish Soldiers From Certain Death in WWII
“We are all Jews here,” Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds said to a Nazi commandant at a POW camp during World War II.
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Message to Mamdani: Colonial America Twice Failed With ‘Community Property’
Collective property ownership failed twice in the early 17th century in a fledgling America because of basic human nature.
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Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln Said About Our Founders on Slavery
Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.
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Bing and Bowie: The Story of an Unlikely Christmas Classic
“You could see them both collectively relax and then magic was made,” Mary Crosby said.
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Absolutely American Story of How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Natural Woman’ Happened
Collaboration for the song shattered geographic, racial, age and faith boundaries.
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An Arab-American’s Response to Antisemitism—the Old and New Kind
There are two kinds of antisemites: Those that hate Jews and know it, and those that promote the hatred of Jews and don’t.
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The Story of Walt Disney’s Biggest Gamble: Disneyland
“No one can design Disneyland. You have to use your people to build this magic kingdom,” architect Welton Becket told Walt Disney.
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Rediscovering and Reclaiming Columbus: What Americans Don’t Know About Him
Much of the delegitimization of Christopher Columbus is attached to a similar move to delegitimize America’s Founding Fathers.
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