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Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout 0
- Economics, Education, Politics
- October 24, 2022
President Joe Biden used his home state of Delaware on Friday to promote his “forgiveness” of student loan debt, which he did through executive action in August rather than through Congress. Some of Biden’s assertions during 24 minutes of remarks at Delaware State University in Dover were factual, and some less so. Biden spoke at
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A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own 4
- Culture, Politics
- October 21, 2022
A teacher who was also a poet once explained to me the meaning of a “found poem.” It’s a poem that takes its words and lines from sources outside the poet: newspaper headlines, advertisements, the outdoor message boards found in front of churches, an overheard conversation, even graffiti. Just this morning, I came across a
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Is the Red Wave Back?0
- Politics
- October 21, 2022
In the dog days of summer, as President Joe Biden’s average approval rating plummeted to historic lows amid an intense flurry of national setbacks, policy blunders and rhetorical “gaffes” (otherwise known as palpable senility), most in the punditry class began to predict an imminent “red wave” of Republican electoral dominance in November’s midterm elections. The
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Meeting Triumph and Disaster With the Ideal Man 9
- Culture, Religion
- October 20, 2022
Admittedly, I’ve never been a huge poetry fan. But in recent years, I’ve come to appreciate it, especially when the poems speak to the very things I’m dealing with. In these cases, poetry gives me strength and courage to walk the difficult road. One of the poems that has hit me in the gut this
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A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness 9
- Family, Culture
- October 19, 2022
On a mid-October visit with my daughter and her family, my son-in-law began recounting stories from a former construction job. He spoke of end-of-day contests—monkey-bar style races, for example, in which construction workers would race across the trusses of a building using hammers instead of the hands, which lasted until one guy slipped and concussed
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Teen Girl Breast Amputation Rose Almost 400 Percent Between 2016 and 2019 2
- Science, Family
- October 19, 2022
The deeper you dig in the dark warrens of adolescent transgender medicine, the more convinced you become that the doctors who operate on young girls are criminal or insane or both. I know that sounds extreme. But how can a decent person read the bare statistics in a recent article in one of the world’s
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