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  • Taking a Liberty ‘Booster’

    Taking a Liberty ‘Booster’0

    Recently I was flipping through A Child’s History of the World, by Virgil Hillyer. I never used this classic textbook with my own children or my students, and now regret that oversight. Hillyer writes well and simply about the past and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, as evidenced by these lines:     

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  • Coins, the Relics of American Liberty

    Coins, the Relics of American Liberty0

    On a shelf in my study is a large Chock full o’ Nuts coffee can. Whenever I return from a shopping trip, I throw all the coins in my pocket into that can. Every three or four months, my grandkids and I carry that can to the grocery store and dump the change into the

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  • Good and Bad News in Our Ongoing Bout With COVID

    Good and Bad News in Our Ongoing Bout With COVID0

    First, the good news: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared an end to all Wuhan Flu restrictions in Great Britain.            No more mandates. No more masks. No more lockdowns. No more vaccine passports.            Boris’s speech last week in Parliament was “the most consequential statement by

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  • It’s Irrational to Send Our Sons to War With Ukraine

    It’s Irrational to Send Our Sons to War With Ukraine0

    “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,” Muhammad Ali famously said when asked about his opposition to the draft and the Vietnam War.            Well, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Russians either.            We seem to be inching closer and closer to a

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