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  • Life Lessons From Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth

    Life Lessons From Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth15

    This year marks the 70th anniversary since Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne. Born in 1926, the future queen was a teenager during World War II, training as a driver and mechanic toward the end of that conflict. Since her father’s death in 1952, she has served her people as monarch through a time

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  • Life Lessons from a Modern-Day Lighthouse Keeper

    Life Lessons from a Modern-Day Lighthouse Keeper2

    When I was around 10 years old, my family discovered our ideal vacation spot in northern Minnesota. As tent campers, we loved that there were no RVs allowed. As lovers of peaceful nature, we loved that each of the 20 campsites were secluded. And as fans of Lake Superior, we loved that many of the

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  • Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba

    Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba0

    When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for

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  • Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias

    Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias0

    Over my decades as a writer, I’ve seen the two faces of the media. This past April, an editor from The Epoch Times (ET) sent me an email telling me she had enjoyed my articles on Intellectual Takeout and wondered if I might talk to her about writing for ET. When we spoke by phone,

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  • Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore

    Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore0

    • February 11, 2016

    The days of the library being only for bookworms are long gone. Libraries are branching out (pun intended). And, according to a new piece for The Atlantic, their efforts are making them into community hubs: “There are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America’s towns: technology, education, and community.” The Center for

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  • Libraries: Filling the Community and… Skills Void?

    Libraries: Filling the Community and… Skills Void?0

    • September 15, 2015

    On Monday, The New York Times ran a piece discussing the evolving nature of libraries. “Libraries aren’t just for books, or even e-books, anymore. They are for checking out cake pans (North Haven, Conn.), snowshoes (Biddeford, Me.), telescopes and microscopes (Ann Arbor, Mich.), American Girl dolls (Lewiston, Me.), fishing rods (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Frisbees and

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