Like many women, when I was given the birds and bees talk, I was told about hormonal birth control pills as a common method of contraception. Indeed, 14 percent of women take the pill. There’s plenty of controversy to be had around this drug. And to be clear, this is not an anti-contraception article; I
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Writer, speaker, wife, and mother-of-five Kimberly Ells tells the story of the Hadjok family living under communist rule in Hungary before their escape over the Austrian border in The Invincible Family. By day, the two children, Vera and Johan, attended a compulsory state school, which indoctrinated them and all the other students in the tenets
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“Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently disavowed a report from its Richmond field office which attempted to link traditional Catholicism to so-called white supremacy. FBI headquarters provided the following statement to The Washington Examiner on Thursday: While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product — disseminated
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People living in our small town have two hobbies: cruising endless circles around the town square and complaining about living in our small town. Generations of residents in our community have been initiated into grumbling as a rural rite of passage. But, as the Bible says, “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters. The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and strategies to deal with vaccine detractors. It is not the first time that my profession has endorsed a product that may be hazardous to your health. For most of the 20th century, the AMA turned a blind
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