Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting
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Via the Washington Free Beacon: The Food and Drug Administration is using young lesbians, drag queens, and transgender individuals in a $36 million advertising campaign to encourage the LGBT community to quit smoking. The government launched the “This Free Life” campaign Monday, which encourages young people to “find their own truth” and not smoke cigarettes.
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America is known as the “land of the free.” Yet, technically, it forces its children to receive some type of formal education. Compulsory education laws have been a part of the American Republic for a little over 150 years (they also existed in some Puritan settlements in colonial America). In all states, children between the
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It’s early in the morning, your alarm goes off at 6 a.m., just like it always does. Time to get up and start the day. You sit up, slide your legs over the edge of the bed, and rub your eyes groggily as you adjust to being cognitive again. A pretty average morning for those
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Sometimes we feel good about other people’s failures. Too often, that’s the feeling the Germans called Schadenfreude—not something to be proud of. But sometimes the human instinct to relish in the failure of others can be used to instruct. That’s the implication of a Washington Post “Wonkblog” from last week entitled “Why it feels so
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In the Western world, it’s widely assumed that making works of art easily available and visible to the public improves people’s lives in tangible ways. Having lived in half-a-dozen major American cities and one English city, I’ve seen public art everywhere. Much of it is funded in whole or part by the taxpayers. But what,
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