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Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Col. Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider. On taking office, Biden held a winning hand. Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and were being administered at a rate of a million shots a
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Several years ago, my grandmother received a note from one of my young cousins which made her cry. If I recall correctly, the tears were of delight rather than sadness, for the note graciously thanked her for a trifle which many would have normally overlooked. Unfortunately, receiving a handwritten thank-you note seems to be increasingly
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Suburban life tends to get a bad rap these days. Some of it is undoubtedly due to a shortsighted failure to take into account deficiencies in modern urban life. But is some of the criticism of suburbia justified? In his 20th century classic The City in History, Lewis Mumford points out that suburbs are by
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Earlier this week we noted how lax student discipline policies are making it difficult for many students to learn. Yet these policies continue on in the name of sensitivity and equity. But is it possible that those acting up and disrupting class are secretly longing for discipline, order, and stability? That seems to be the
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Staying home with children used to be the societal norm for women. They remain a large segment of the population, as research shows that 30 percent of mothers with children at home still choose to forego paid employment, but they are increasingly marginalized by our popular culture. A recent example of this comes from The Telegraph, one
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If your child came home with a report card full of As and Bs every quarter, and regularly aced the yearly state standardized tests, you would naturally be a proud parent. But what if those As and Bs didn’t give a true picture and your child was actually failing miserably? Unfortunately, that is exactly what
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