Americans know today, February 2, as Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil is brought out of his tree-trunk in Northwestern Pennsylvania to determine how much longer winter will last. For Christians, it’s also the Feast of Candlemas. Most people assume that Groundhog Day and Candlemas are not connected, but in fact—as I recently discovered—they are! The
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In case one needed further evidence that American schools are in chaos, the video below will put any doubts to rest. The clip, taken at Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis shows two female students in a tussle with an older male teacher. According to local news channel KSTP, the teacher got the raw end
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All kids have a sometimes-fluid relationship with the truth. I have often wished that I had the skills of an FBI profiler, especially when faced with the smiling cherubs in front of me who certainly look like they have been up to something, even as they insist they have not. Kids can lie like an
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We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait”. Those who
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Last month, National Geographic declared, with the help of an exploitive picture of a pink-clad transgender child, that America is in the midst of a gender revolution. Everything, it seems, is now being looked at through the lens of gender, including our choices about what to eat. According to a recent article in the Washington
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I work for a nonprofit whose activities largely center around digital media. But lately, I wish I could just get away from it all. There’s way too much anger right now in that sphere, and much of it is being driven by news media. The mainstream news media would have you believe that they are
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