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Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read22
- Education, Family, Featured, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 13, 2025
Between 1900 and 1950, literacy among Americans 14 years and older rose dramatically. The 1950 Census found that illiteracy was below 3% in two-thirds of the states and below 10% in all states. These studies defined illiteracy as a complete inability to read English or any other language. Seventy-five years later, that definition has changed a bit,
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Beauty for Ashes and the Blood of a Martyr26
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- October 7, 2025
On Sunday, Oct. 5, about 250 people gathered at the gazebo in my hometown to pray for America and honor Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10. Pastors and youth ministers addressed the crowd, leading them through invocations directed mainly at the country and government, with a praise and worship band leading attendees in
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Time to Give the Hook to Preferred Pronouns35
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 3, 2025
Many years ago, my elementary school teachers taught that a pronoun must match its antecedent – the noun to which it refers – in number, gender, and person. In “John read that rule from his book,” the pronoun “his” is singular, masculine, and third-person. That’s straight-up grammar. Yet every week I read online writers who
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Free Speech Always Comes With a Price Tag27
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 1, 2025
Imagine two 20-something strangers, Joe and Mike, standing elbow to elbow at the open bar of a large wedding reception. The bartender refreshes their drinks, they happen to turn at the same time to face the crowded hall, and Joe points to a woman in a red dress on the dance floor. “Man, look at
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