While not the official motto of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, is a common Latin phrase used in the United States since 1776 and still found on the Great Seal of the United States. Its meaning, of course, is “Out of many, one”. It originally referred to the act of many states (or colonies
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74 years ago today, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The devastation was immense, but the action did not knock the United States out of the war as the Japanese hoped. Here is President Roosevelt’s complete speech to Congress requesting a declaration of war. It includes
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1. “If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” 2. “Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was
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Let’s face it: we all have holes in our education. In part, this is because we can only fit so much into the years of our formal education. But the holes in our education are also due to the fact that we no longer have a standard canon of sources that we are expected to
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Ever feel like a meanie by requiring your kids to help with family chores, such as folding laundry or washing dishes? You shouldn’t, because as Time Magazine reports, children whose parents require them to do chores are likely to be more successful in life. Reporting on a recent survey from Funifi, TIME notes the ups
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No doubt, you’ve seen a few headlines like this example from The Washington Post: In a rather interesting opinion piece in The New York Times, Mark Follman, an editor at Mother Jones, throws some cold water on the claim that there have been more mass-shootings this year than actual days of the year. Frankly, it’s
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