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  • Are Human Rights Real?

    Are Human Rights Real?0

    “Rights! Boy, everyone in this country’s always running around yammering about their [expletive] rights. ‘I have a right,’ ‘You have no right’… Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but there’s no such thing as rights. Ok? They’re imaginary. We made them up,” comedian George Carlin said in a 2008 stand-up special. According to Carlin, who

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  • Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?

    Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?0

    I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools

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  • Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?

    Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?0

    In a recent Facebook post, Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, shared a letter he received from an Arkansas mother. The letter ran as follows: Dear Mike My son, Spencer, decided to apply for the High Voltage Lineman program at Arkansas State University Newport. He went through the interviews just fine,

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  • Are Gifted and Talented Students Being Left Behind?

    Are Gifted and Talented Students Being Left Behind?0

    • June 23, 2015

    We hear a lot about the efforts and plans to promote the progress of failing students in today’s public schools. But in our efforts to get those students caught up, are we also squelching the abilities and interests of our best and brightest students? The answer to that question seems to be yes, according to

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  • Are Gentlemen a Thing of the Past?

    Are Gentlemen a Thing of the Past?0

    In recent years, it’s become a common complaint of women everywhere that there aren’t any decent men around. Such complaints may be well-founded, particularly as reports increasingly affirm that some groups of women will have greater difficulty finding a spouse. But when looking for a spouse, do women sometimes have an ill-informed view of what

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  • Are Fathers Becoming Less Manly?

    Are Fathers Becoming Less Manly?1

    Last week I took all three of my little girls into a supermarket, where another man noticed me pushing a cart around with two kids in it and wearing a third one on my chest in a baby harness. “Superdad!” he called out, with a thumbs-up. I was rather proud of that since being the

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