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  • It’s Time to Make Our Young People Tough

    It’s Time to Make Our Young People Tough0

    In mid-November, students at Eastern Illinois University took two days off from their rigid academic schedules for R&R.          University administrators and faculty members provided their young adults with a festival of ice cream, cocoa and cookies, coloring books, yoga, affirmation cards, and yes, trikes and LEGOS. All this, writes Alex Parker

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  • It’s Time To Go on the Offensive With Public School Reading Lists

    It’s Time To Go on the Offensive With Public School Reading Lists0

    It’s often said that an individual will be same person five years down the road except for the books he reads and the people he meets. That’s likely the reason book battles in public schools and libraries have become so intense in recent years – fill a child’s mind with salacious and subversive ideas, and

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  • It’s Time to Focus on the Enemy Within, Not Without

    It’s Time to Focus on the Enemy Within, Not Without0

    The reincarnation of Hitler in some national leader and the heroism of Churchill, both stand-by props of neoconservatives, rear their head again in a recent commentary by Daniel Gelernter. Expecting neocons to abandon their continual reference of these props would be comparable to asking the Democratic Party to stop talking about “systemic racism” or Mike

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  • It’s Time to Declutter Your Kids’ Calendars

    It’s Time to Declutter Your Kids’ Calendars1

    Americans of all backgrounds have tried Marie Kondo’s methods of decluttering their homes. Could that decluttering itch be spreading to their lives as well? I asked this question after reading an article in The Washington Post by Megan Nix, who explains her changing state of mind regarding her children’s extra-curricular activities. Like many other parents,

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  • It’s Time to Deal With the Insanity on College Campuses, Before It’s Too Late

    It’s Time to Deal With the Insanity on College Campuses, Before It’s Too Late0

    In a scene from one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers, the new basketball coach Norman Dale (played by Gene Hackman) has a showdown with the self-appointed assistant coach, George. After Coach Dale tells George that his “coaching days are over,” the latter sheepishly says to him: “Look, mister, there’s… two kinds of dumb, uh… guy

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  • It’s Time to Call Out Higher Education for What It Really Is

    It’s Time to Call Out Higher Education for What It Really Is0

    There is little doubt that Glenn Youngkin would have lost the Virginia gubernatorial race if he had not attacked Critical Race Theory and rejected the mindset that says boys must be treated as girls if they identify as female. In Loudon County, that mindset reportedly led public school officials to shelter a “skirt-wearing male student”

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