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  • Wrestling With Justice in the Midst of Sorrow and Loss

    Wrestling With Justice in the Midst of Sorrow and Loss0

    One year ago, I lost a friend, a good man who was driven to his untimely death by the wicked words and deeds of people determined to ruin his life if they could. People who loathed him—without knowing him in any meaningful human way—simply because he disagreed with their beliefs about political, cultural, and philosophical matters. It

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  • Wow… This Chart Shows Just How Much the U.S. Rural Population Has Declined

    Wow… This Chart Shows Just How Much the U.S. Rural Population Has Declined0

    • September 1, 2015

    Chart source: U.S. Census Bureau Keep in mind, too, that at the time of the American Revolution, 95% of Americans lived in rural areas. Here are the census numbers going back to 1790: My, how things have changed… Save this article to favorites

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  • Wow… Only 28% of Parents Require Their Children to do Chores

    Wow… Only 28% of Parents Require Their Children to do Chores1

    The other day the Washington Post ran an article entitled “The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal.” Not being a fan of cereal myself, I clicked on it to see if other millennials shared my disinterest in the common breakfast food. Au contraire. Millennials like cereal… it’s just the washing of a bowl and

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  • Wow! This College’s Curriculum is VERY Impressive!

    Wow! This College’s Curriculum is VERY Impressive!0

    If you’re going to focus on the liberal arts in college, you might as well do it right. St. John’s College in Annapolis and Santa Fe is one of those places where you can “do it right.” They offer a program that “immerses students in reading great books and in lively and unmediated conversation with

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  • WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!

    WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!0

    • September 27, 2016

    Philosopher George Santayana’s line has become cliché, but it’s so damn true: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, perhaps if more Americans today read Plato (like they used to), then our country wouldn’t be repeating the same mistakes he warned us about 2,400 years ago.   In Book VIII

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  • Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought

    Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought0

    Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate.  Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our

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