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Wise Parenting Uses Natural Consequences0
- Education
- June 20, 2016
The great slogan of classical liberalism is “Life, Liberty, Property.” Essentially this means, don’t murder, enslave, or steal. And this in turn is essentially what we teach children when we say no hitting, bullying, or grabbing. Yet, when kids are introduced to the concept of government, suddenly murder/hitting (war, police brutality), slavery/bullying (conscription, regulation, prohibition,
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University Abandons Math Requirement, Embraces Diversity0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
I never was very fond of math. In fact – true confession – I did some pretty close research and fancy footwork to try to fulfill my two college math requirements in courses that were more conducive to my *ahem* right-brained tendencies. Like most things in life, I now see the benefit of those detested
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Mateen Transcript: Why are References to ISIS Being Scrubbed?0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
The Department of Justice today released a transcript of the calls Omar Mateen made during the shooting rampage at an Orlando nightclub a week ago. The transcript is incomplete, however. During a conversation with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said references to Islamic terrorism would be removed. “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of
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Is a War Against the Family Being Waged in the West?0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
For decades, now, Christians have worried about the progressive push to strip naked the public square by forcing religion into the shadows of a private sphere. Recent events have made clear that this is not the case. Everything is public and political to the secular left. All aspects of our lives are fair game in
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Has the ‘War on Boys’ Entered the Workforce?0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
This morning The Washington Post reported on a growing problem afflicting the American workforce: fewer men are participating. The Post explains: “The [workforce downturn] problem is particularly pronounced among men between the ages of 25 and 54, traditionally considered the prime working years. Their participation rate has been declining for decades, but the drop-off accelerated
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Elementary History: Test your knowledge of general history0
- Education
- June 20, 2016
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10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages0
- Education
- June 20, 2016
Jeffrey L. Singman is a historian who writes about everyday in life in history. Over the weekend, I finally got to cracking his book The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. The book offers a great glimpse into life in the Middle Ages from the perspective of people who weren’t kings, popes, bishops, lords
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When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System1
- Education
- June 17, 2016
Today’s Democratic Party in America is considered the foremost advocate of a centralized, bureaucratic, and high-spending public education system. But in 19th-century Massachusetts, where our current public education system originated, the opposite was the case. It was the Democratic Party that was the major opponent of the spread of the government’s tentacles over education. This
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What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay
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