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  • Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?

    Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?0

    On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces. The COVID-19 pandemic had reached its apex, infecting a quarter of a million Americans every day. Yet, due to the discovery and distribution of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the incidence

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  • Are the Good Times Over for Joe?

    Are the Good Times Over for Joe?0

    “When sorrows come,” said King Claudius, “they come not single spies but in battalions.” As the king found out. So it seems with President Joe Biden, who must be asking himself the question Merle Haggard asked: “Are the good times really over for good?” Consider the critical issue with voters today: the state of the

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  • Are the Good Times Over for Biden?

    Are the Good Times Over for Biden?0

    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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  • Are Thank-You Notes Becoming a Thing of the Past?

    Are Thank-You Notes Becoming a Thing of the Past?0

    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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  • Are Suburbs a Form of Escapism?

    Are Suburbs a Form of Escapism?0

    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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  • Are Students Secretly Longing for Discipline and Order?

    Are Students Secretly Longing for Discipline and Order?0

    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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