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  • Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad

    Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad5

    Last week, Oliver Anthony was a blue-collar worker from Farmville, Virginia, living on a 90-acre farm with his three dogs, a man unknown to the world. Today, his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is at the top of the global music charts. A backyard recording of his “blue collar anthem,” as it’s been dubbed,

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  • Farm Tough

    Farm Tough0

    Recently, my 10-year-old son, Eric, made a play in his baseball game that I was particularly proud of. He didn’t strike out the side or make a fantastic stop in the field. He didn’t smash a double down the left-field line. No, it wasn’t a remarkable play at all—Eric was hit by a pitch on

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  • Farewell, Christopher Tolkien. Middle-Earth Is Indebted to You

    Farewell, Christopher Tolkien. Middle-Earth Is Indebted to You0

    Last week in France, and at the age of 95, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien quietly passed away. The headlines of many obituaries and tributes refer to him as the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, which indeed he was. Born in England on November 21, 1924, he was the third of four children of J.R.R and Edith

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  • Far Left Drives 44 Percent Hate Crime Increase Against European Christians

    Far Left Drives 44 Percent Hate Crime Increase Against European Christians0

    Anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe have risen by 44 percent in just one year, with far-left groups behind a majority of the attacks, according to a shocking new report. Published in October, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe’s Annual Report detailed a wave of violent attacks, church arson, and rising extremism

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  • Fantasy Land: The Downfall of Disney and Innocence Lost

    Fantasy Land: The Downfall of Disney and Innocence Lost2

    Long ago, when my siblings and I were children, The Wizard of Oz appeared once a year on network television. That was a special event in our household. My mother closed down the dining room for supper, put up TV trays in the den, served up what were then rather exotic TV dinners, and turned

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  • Fantasy Films: The Obliteration of Imagination?

    Fantasy Films: The Obliteration of Imagination?0

    • April 30, 2015

    I confess to feeling a little surge of excitement this week in watching the trailer for the new Star Wars film. I thought the Narnia movies were pretty good, I greatly enjoy Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I do not complain too much when my sons drag me off to yet another superhero movie. I am

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