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  • Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable

    Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable0

    • September 29, 2015

    Occasionally, you’ll see gun-ownership advocates mocked for believing that the Founders both feared a standing army and believed that an armed citizenry would be a deterrent against a military takeover of the country by its own government. Why it seems absurd that the Founders would hold such views is beyond me. The Founders had just

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  • An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities

    An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities0

    Have you ever seen a “hen-pecked” chicken? It’s not pretty. Here’s a picture: (Source: cluck-cluck-here.blogspot.com) It turns out that chickens are actually quite cruel to each other. There is a “pecking order” and you don’t want to be the chicken on the bottom of that order. The farmer my family visited over the weekend pointed

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  • New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too

    New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too0

    Kids think bedtime stories are just for babies, right? Wrong. According to a recent survey conducted by Scholastic in Great Britain, nearly 40% of children ages 6-8 and 30% of children ages 9-11 regretted the fact that their parents stopped reading aloud to them. In the U.S., those numbers are even greater, as shown by

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  • Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?

    Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?0

    The summary of an article in this September’s edition of Boston Magazine reads: “More and more of Boston’s smartest families are opting out of the education system to homeschool their children. Is this the new model for creating elite kids?” The perception used to be that homeschooling was the realm of families primarily motivated by

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  • Is Freedom of Religion Being Eclipsed in America?

    Is Freedom of Religion Being Eclipsed in America?0

    Over the weekend, President Obama made some revealing comments about the freedom of religion. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, President Obama said: “We affirm that we cherish our religious freedom and are profoundly respectful of religious traditions, but we also have to say clearly that our religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to

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  • Hollywood Star Became Stay-at-Home Dad After Wife Died of Cancer

    Hollywood Star Became Stay-at-Home Dad After Wife Died of Cancer0

    Actor Rick Moranis was a fixture in many movies I watched growing up – Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Parenthood, Honey I Shrunk the Kids.    And then, suddenly, he wasn’t in any more movies. I had never heard what happened to him until I came across this Mental Floss piece this past weekend.    As it turns

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