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  • Saying Goodbye to the Scouts

    Saying Goodbye to the Scouts0

    The Academy Awards, the National Football League, the Miss America Contest, the Emmys, many of our universities: politics and political correctness have cast a pall over these and other treasured American institutions. As a result, they have lost sight of their mission, their reason for being, which is to celebrate movies or sport, beauty or

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  • Saying Goodbye to Papa

    Saying Goodbye to Papa0

    I first became a huge fan of Ernest “Papa” Hemingway back in my twenties. I read his short stories, nearly all his novels, and his memoir, A Moveable Feast, recounting the time in Paris when he was just beginning his adventures in fiction. I also read several biographies about him, including Carlos Baker’s classic Ernest Hemingway: A

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  • Savor the Taste of Independence, Grow Your Own!

    Savor the Taste of Independence, Grow Your Own!0

    Growing your own tomatoes can be rewarding far beyond the sweet taste of your crop. The traditional extra benefits keep bringing many of us back season after season. If you’re a gardener, you know the great feeling of acting directly on nature to produce the food you eat. Raising tomatoes gets you outside and sweating,

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  • Saving the Real American Dream in 2020

    Saving the Real American Dream in 20200

    In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off

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  • Saving Private Ryan: Virtue and Valour Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    Saving Private Ryan: Virtue and Valour Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    When my 16, 14, and 12 year-old sons asked me if they could watch Thor: Ragnarok for a second time, I reminded them that it wasn’t likely to improve upon second viewing, and they good naturedly agreed. Their next choice was Saving Private Ryan. That gave me pause. I hadn’t thought about that movie in a long time.

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  • Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car

    Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car2

    The Washington Post recently reported that California will cease to allow the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. This act of government overreach comes not through a legislative act by the state’s elected representatives in the House and Senate, but by decree of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board

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