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  • Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach

    Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach1

    Of all the teachers who enter the profession each year, nearly 17 percent of them will leave the classroom behind within five years. So when a teacher sticks around for almost 30 years, you have to admit that he is probably pretty experienced and knows what he’s talking about. Such is the case with John

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  • Did Bad Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?

    Did Bad Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?0

    Practically before the last musket had fired, people were trying to explain how Napoleon lost at the famous Battle of Waterloo. A theory that has persisted is that Napoleon was suffering from a bad case of hemorrhoids at the time of the battle, and this delayed his opening assault on the morning of June 18,

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  • Apprenticeship in High School? This State is Trying It.

    Apprenticeship in High School? This State is Trying It.0

    Although apprenticeships have long been a staple of European education, many in the U.S. have viewed them skeptically, having been told that college is the only path to career success. Any student who refuses to tread the college path is thus often viewed as less than brilliant. This narrow view of apprenticeship may be set

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  • Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone

    Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone0

    The biggest mystery of American politics is why the media failed to take Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency seriously. A year ago he was a just a vulgar buffoon; now he is the presumptive nominee of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan and could easily become the next leader of the free world.

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  • Why Not Polygamy?

    Why Not Polygamy?1

    As same-sex marriage became widely accepted in the U.S. over the last decade, a surefire way to increase the decibel level of a conversation on the issue was to bring up polygamy. Liberal and conservative proponents of same-sex marriage alike said opponents of gay marriage were relying on weak slippery-slope arguments (they often were). Lengthy

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  • Why do Media Ignore Communism’s Criminal Past?

    Why do Media Ignore Communism’s Criminal Past?0

    It seems more and more Western leaders are going to Cuba to prostrate themselves at the feet of the ruling dynasty, the Castros. UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond went there on April 28, about a month after US President Barack Obama paid obeisance. Which raises the question of “why”? They hardly need Cuba’s vast wealth, which is

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  • Did a 15-Year-Old Student Discover a Lost Mayan City?

    Did a 15-Year-Old Student Discover a Lost Mayan City?0

    My friends and I would always talk about how much of the Earth is still unexplored and what it might be like to stumble across an ancient city or culture that has been hiding for centuries. I’m sure it’s been the dream of millions of kids around the world, especially with archeological icons like Indiana

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  • Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?

    Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?2

    Over the weekend, I came across an interesting book entitled The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hall Iggulden. Recognizing that many of today’s boys no longer know how to do essential “boy things” such as tying knots, building tree forts and go-carts, or making other tools and gadgets, the book undertakes to give

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  • A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context

    A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context0

    In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell has a chapter called “The Power of Context.” The power of context shows how people’s decisions are highly influenced by the circumstances in which they are making a decision or presented information. For instance, a seminarian who had just heard the parable of the Good Samaritan might

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