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  • Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother

    Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother0

    In 1815, as Andrew Jackson stood before his men a war hero following the Battle of New Orleans, he spoke of his mother, who had been dead three and a half decades. “Gentlemen, I wish she could have lived to see this day. There never was a woman like her,” Jackson intoned, according to historian

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  • Advice from My Father

    Advice from My Father0

    • September 17, 2015

    I barely knew my father. As is typical of my generation, my parents separated and then divorced when I was only four or five. After picking up the pieces of his shattered existence, my father reentered my life with some regularity when I was about 8 or 9. And by that, I mean I got

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  • Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat

    Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat0

    Whether conjured up by something I ate before bedtime, or by the cheesy horror flick I watched a few nights before, or by something else, I just don’t know – but I tossed and turned through one of the most vivid dreams last weekend that I’ve ever experienced. The Dream I was in a classroom

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  • Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone

    Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone0

    The biggest mystery of American politics is why the media failed to take Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency seriously. A year ago he was a just a vulgar buffoon; now he is the presumptive nominee of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan and could easily become the next leader of the free world.

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  • Advanced Degrees Bring Higher Starting Salaries – but Also Higher Debt

    Advanced Degrees Bring Higher Starting Salaries – but Also Higher Debt0

    People with a master’s degree or doctorate can bank on a much higher starting salary than those with the same major but only a bachelor’s degree. That’s according to a recent survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. We reached the same conclusion about the payoff for advanced degrees in a

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  • Adults are Using Children’s Activities to Unwind

    Adults are Using Children’s Activities to Unwind0

    • September 15, 2015

    These past few days, I’ve had two reminders about how stressful work is for many Americans today. The first reminder came when I watched Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary with my children the other night. In the film, they profiled the growing community of adults who build with Legos, known in the Lego world

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