The same-sex marriage debate is about to heat up in Australia, and for both sides the temptation to embrace fear and hate will be fierce. Most of us have enemies, even if we don’t recognise it. Most of us hate someone, or some group of people, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. Hate
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In case there was any ambiguity over the idea that mass schooling values and rewards conformity and compliance, an elementary school in Florida has made it very clear. At Deer Park Elementary School in Pasco County, signs appeared this week showing a hierarchy of behaviors from good to bad. “Democracy” was at the top, “Anarchy”
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Pew Research recently ran an interesting experiment on state constitutions. As they report, “The U.S. Constitution never explicitly mentions God or the divine, but the same cannot be said of the nation’s state constitutions.” The following chart is proof of this, showing the number of mentions the Almighty receives in the legal underpinnings of every
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Since the chaos at Charlottesville, media of various sorts have been hammering away at the evil of white supremacy and neo-Nazis while barely mentioning the evil of Antifa. It is as if we are to believe that we have a binary choice: Will you line up with neo-Nazis or will you line up with Antifa?
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It was a match made… in the Mall of America, of all places. Twenty years ago, I remember reading the story of David Weinlick and Elizabeth Runze in my local paper. They barely knew each other, but were married in a showcase wedding at the Mall of America. The groom, having long been harassed by
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As history buffs around the world will know, 2017 marks the one hundredth anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I. In recognition of this anniversary, my state’s history center is currently sponsoring an exhibit on the lead-up to the war, America’s part in it, and the aftermath. I had the fun of exploring this
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