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  • Working Mom: Stop Marginalizing Stay-at-Home Parenting

    Working Mom: Stop Marginalizing Stay-at-Home Parenting0

    The polarized nature of society in recent years has led many to realize the need for rational discussion and a fair hearing of various hot topics. But while many give verbal assent to this need, it often doesn’t happen, and increasingly, Americans are treated to a one-sided view of many issues. According to teacher Laura

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  • Work, Marriage, Children: There Is Hope for Millennials

    Work, Marriage, Children: There Is Hope for Millennials0

    Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Those seven words are part of the core message in Charles Murray’s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead, a book I recommend to young people. Most of us have read these recommendations somewhere as a formula for a successful life, and conservatives in particular advocate this approach as

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  • Words of wisdom from Russia?

    Words of wisdom from Russia?0

    From Reuters we learn: “Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the specter of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces. Medvedev, speaking to Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve of talks between major

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  • Word Salads No More

    Word Salads No More5

    Church was crowded, and I ended up, as I often do, sitting near the back. Just as Mass began, I glanced over my shoulder, as I also often do, to see whether some elderly person or pregnant mom might need a seat. (Saint John’s is jammed full of young families and children.) I spend a

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  • Woody Allen, Bill Buckley, and the Cancel Culture That Wasn’t

    Woody Allen, Bill Buckley, and the Cancel Culture That Wasn’t0

    Every once in a while something pops up on YouTube that knocks me for a loop. I was messing around there recently when I found “Woody Allen Looks at 1967,” a variety show hosted by the comedian in which he featured guests like actress Liza Minnelli and singer Aretha Franklin. Nothing unusual there, but then

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  • Women’s Soccer: More Iron Horse, Less Braying

    Women’s Soccer: More Iron Horse, Less Braying1

    Recently, Americans were implored to pay attention to a sport most of us do not follow for reasons that have little to do with the dramatic nature of the competition. Turning on a computer brought regular reminders of this sport, with Google Doodles dedicated to each of the participating teams and news feeds filled with

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