“THANK YOU to our patrons. We look forward to a GREAT 2017” read the chalked sidewalk sign outside a small New England natural foods store near my home. Do you see a hidden message in this sign? Some thought the word “GREAT” was a code word of support for Trump and began to boycott this
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Perhaps it’s all that New World fresh air and pioneering spirit, but Canada is taking to its new euthanasia legislation like a duck to water. It only became legal in June and already about 800 people have received a lethal injection at the hands of a doctor. Where it is beating the Old World
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A friend shared a video on Facebook a few days ago that featured Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union Address. My eyes popped when I saw that it had been viewed nearly 100 million times (according to Facebook), and then it occurred to me that a different friend had emailed me the same clip
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Ever heard of the phrase “college and career ready”? If so, then you know the goal of American education in a nutshell. But while American public education is an expert at naming this goal, they seem unable to achieve it. That’s according to a new analysis conducted by the Hechinger Report on remedial education in
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On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to take Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. Despite the pageantry of the announcement, it was difficult not to let one’s eyes stray to Judge Gorsuch and his wife Louise. The two of them looked like a nice, middle-age, average American couple, suddenly
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Yesterday, the Census Bureau released its measure of homeownership for 2016, and the annual average for 2016 was 63.4 percent. That’s the lowest rate measured since 1965 when the homeownership rate was 63 percent. 2016 was also the twelfth year in a row in which the homeownership rate was lower than the year prior. In
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