The excitement surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to America is the closest Catholics get to Beatlemania. Hundreds of thousands are hoping to catch a glimpse of the pope when he is in D.C., New York, and Philadelphia this week. My Facebook feed has seen more than one post from those with golden tickets to see the
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Teachers in America frequently complain that they are underpaid. But that is not a complaint you will hear from South Korean teacher, Andrew Kim, who made $4 million in 2010. Profiled in Amanda Ripley’s bestseller The Smartest Kids in the World, Kim is known in South Korea as a “rock-star teacher.” For over twenty years,
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Most of us have had the experience of being with a bad listener. There’s the person who looks at his phone while you speak and periodically nods his head and mutters “Mmm Hmm.” There’s the one who stares blankly at you with a mix of boredom and resentment, just praying that you will soon stop
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Ben Franklin once famously said, “Honesty is the best policy.” A California man recently discovered the truth of that statement. According to CBS Sacramento, Mike Vegas had several items from Domino’s Pizza delivered to his house the other day. When he went back to eat the leftovers, he discovered he had received a bonus. A
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A passage from Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 classic Democracy in America. It’s from chapter 6 entitled “What Sort Of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear”: “I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men all equal and alike,
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I’ve been told that the video about a rat dragging a pizza is trending in the news. I’m sure it’s good clickbait material, which we might even benefit from, too. But at least we’re being honest. USA Today, “the nation’s newspaper”, got in on it: ABC News joined in, too: Where would we be without knowing that
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