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  • An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities

    An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities0

    Have you ever seen a “hen-pecked” chicken? It’s not pretty. Here’s a picture: (Source: cluck-cluck-here.blogspot.com) It turns out that chickens are actually quite cruel to each other. There is a “pecking order” and you don’t want to be the chicken on the bottom of that order. The farmer my family visited over the weekend pointed

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  • An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy

    An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy0

    Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. George Orwell wrote those words nearly 80 years ago. Today, Americans are witnessing exactly what Orwell described. Many have the

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  • An Author Explains 5 Steps to Becoming a Smart Reader

    An Author Explains 5 Steps to Becoming a Smart Reader0

    Autumn vibes reign supreme at this time of year. Pumpkin spice lattes, “hygge” trends, sweaters, back-to-school shopping, and crisp clear days do their best to enchant even the most resistant of us. And of course, there’s always the option of curling up with a good book. It is this latter pastime that Dorothy Sayers, an

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  • An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning

    An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning0

    This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Man’s Search for Meaning, one of the most powerful statements of human dignity written in the last century. The author was Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant

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  • An Attitude of Gratitude and Gratitude with Attitude: Thanksgiving 2023

    An Attitude of Gratitude and Gratitude with Attitude: Thanksgiving 20231

    An idea sent me to my calculator. The United States is 247 years old. I am 72 years old. Simple division revealed that I have lived in this country for 29.2 percent of its history as a nation. Good grief! Hand me a cane and call me Methuselah! Another three years, if I am so

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  • An Atheist Explains the True Reason Religion Terrifies Him

    An Atheist Explains the True Reason Religion Terrifies Him1

    Millennials are notorious for many things: student debt, perpetual childhood, high self-esteem, and even low work ethic. But in the last few years, millennials have also become characterized by another feature, namely, a lack of religion. As Pew Research explains, millennials make up a major part in the growth of the “nones,” individuals who “describe

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