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  • America’s Got Talent and ’Tis the Season to Remember Those Gifts

    America’s Got Talent and ’Tis the Season to Remember Those Gifts0

    A week before Christmas, I attended a performance of The Nutcracker in the Old Opera House Theater in Charles Town, West Virginia. My presence was obligatory. My five-year-old granddaughter and her class of budding ballerinas appeared as dancing Lady Bugs for a brief time on the stage, a part undoubtedly added by the director to

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  • America’s Ghost Legions of Idle Men

    America’s Ghost Legions of Idle Men0

    The US stock market continues to set new records. Unemployment continues to go down. The United States is now at or near “full employment”. According to a Bloomberg headline last year, “The Jobless Numbers Aren’t Just Good, They’re Great”. But a closer look at economic data by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt reveals something else entirely. While

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  • America’s Forgotten 400th Anniversary

    America’s Forgotten 400th Anniversary0

    We seem to hear little this year about the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in November 1620.   Perhaps the coronavirus is the cause, or maybe the ugly mess and turmoil of our presidential election has overshadowed its remembrance. Or maybe political correctness has claimed another victim.    Whatever the case, the 400th anniversary

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  • America’s First Poet, Anne Bradstreet: A Progressive Conservative

    America’s First Poet, Anne Bradstreet: A Progressive Conservative0

    Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) was a pioneer in two ways: She was a pioneering settler in 17th-century New England who helped establish a new community in the New World, and she was also a pioneering poet who in 1650 became America’s first published poet and one of the first professional female poets in English literature. Despite

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  • America’s Elites Are Terrified of Hillbillies

    America’s Elites Are Terrified of Hillbillies2

    Politics abound with oddities, but perhaps none is greater than the elite’s disproportionate reaction to the Jan. 6 Capitol mayhem as opposed to their response to the largely black rioting following George Floyd’s death. While the black rioting drew tens of thousands of participants, lasted months, and was indisputably violent with billions in property damage,

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  • America’s Dwindling Number of Gifted and Talented Students

    America’s Dwindling Number of Gifted and Talented Students0

    Have you ever felt that your child has the potential to excel, but that his school is keeping him average? This sentiment seems to have spread in the past decade, particularly since the introduction of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In the fight to make sure struggling students were not left behind, many gifted and

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