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- Culture, Economics, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- August 25, 2025
The College Board just released a report on the results of the 2016 SAT test. One startling feature of the report included a historical timeline of students’ critical reading scores over the last 40-plus years. In 1972, this score was 530. By 2016 it had fallen to 494. There are undoubtedly many drivers behind this
READ MOREIt is the early days of television in one of the studios of TV network pioneer DuMont. There is a live audience gathered before a mock study, and all is quiet. The cameras start to roll. A door at the back of the set opens and out walks a remarkable figure. He is dressed in
READ MOREA new Congressional Budget Office report projecting the effects of the House Republican leadership’s American Health Care Act weakens the case for the bill’s ObamaCare-lite approach, and strengthens the case for full repeal. The CBO projects that over the next two years, the AHCA would cause average premiums to rise 15 percent to 20 percent above ObamaCare’s
READ MOREIs Elsa from Disney’s animated film “Frozen” a closet lesbian? Many conclude she is, and supporters of an LGBT princess think there are signs backing these speculations. “Disney really just released the trailer (for “Frozen 2”) during pride month. Elsa is a lesbian confirmed! That’s just how it is, I don’t make the rules,” comments a fan
READ MOREOf the first Frozen movie, I probably wrote half a dozen articles. What was that magic ingredient that made it a plus-billion-dollar blockbuster, a culture-rocking achievement, a life-defining event for a whole generation of kids and their parents? That’s a huge question. You can list every ingredient you want: the amazing characters, the charmed music,
READ MOREMy Pennsylvania-born mother owned a black napkin holder sporting an Amish woman and an inscription: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart” (“We grow too soon old and too late smart”). Recently, I had reason to remember that adage. Because my children have trouble figuring out what to give me for my birthday,
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