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  • ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?

    ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?0

    It’s day six of the man-flu: my head pounds, body aches, and some foul demon is still sucking the marrow from my bones, so heavy are my limbs. Surprisingly, my wife who is “100-months pregnant” and may be going into labor at any moment has been mostly doting, urging rest so that I can pull the

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  • ‘Lookism’ Is the Newest Form of Bigotry

    ‘Lookism’ Is the Newest Form of Bigotry0

    Don’t look now, but “lookism” may be the next politically incorrect thing you are guilty of. The latest installment of our nation’s utopian quest, “lookism” is defined as “the discriminatory treatment of people who are considered physically unattractive.” To be sure, beauty is always culturally defined, and hard to quantify precisely, but in today’s America

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  • ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood

    ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood0

    Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant, Jackman embraces his age and experience to play a grizzled, broken-down Wolverine, a man of violence who has lost his way—until a

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  • ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win

    ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win4

    In my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have

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  • ‘Little House’ Libertarians and the Culture of Freedom

    ‘Little House’ Libertarians and the Culture of Freedom1

    It’s no coincidence that one of the first American libertarians was not a politician nor a political philosopher. Instead, she was a mother and a pioneer. Her name is probably familiar to you: Laura Ingalls Wilder. And while her influence on libertarian thought may come as a surprise, it makes perfect sense. When intellectuals write

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  • ‘Like the Tin Man’: National Guardsman Paralyzed by COVID Vaccine

    ‘Like the Tin Man’: National Guardsman Paralyzed by COVID Vaccine6

    For many of us, whole-body paralysis is a worst nightmare scenario. For a Minnesota National Guardsman, who goes by Drew Outstanding on X, that nightmare became a reality in April 2021. In the space of two weeks, Drew went from a normal, active lifestyle to waking up unable to move and then entering a medically-induced

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