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Why the Holocaust Should Matter to You0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
People tour the nation’s capital to be delighted by symbols of America’s greatness and history. They seek out monuments and museums that pay tribute to the nation state and its works. They want to think about the epic struggles of the past, and how mighty leaders confronted and vanquished enemies at home and abroad. But
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Why Children Should be Encouraged to Build Things0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Several years ago, a little boy I know set out to make and enter a project in the state fair. He gathered his supplies, came up with a design, and forged a hand-crafted knife – blade and all. While his creation was quite impressive, the state fair was not amused and refused to let him
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The West’s War on Children0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
The world has now seen several decades of something quite new: explicitly anti-child policies. By this one might think I am referring to the “one-child” policy in China. And to a certain extent I am. Fines and the withholding of education and other services, not to mention forced abortions, rather comfortably fit within any definition
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Should More Children Be Introduced to Gardening?0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Some close friends of mine regularly invite children from an inner-city program to their hobby farm. The kids always have a blast doing all the things that farm kids do: chasing chickens, running by the garden, through the orchard, and so on. After one of these outings, my friends were driving the children back to
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Just Because a Kid is ‘Hard’ Doesn’t Mean He’s not ‘Normal’0
- Family
- March 15, 2016
In a recent blog for the New York Times, pediatrician Perri Klass reminds us that in the full range of normal, healthy child development, some kids are just plain more difficult than others. It seems like she is stating the obvious, but is this a reminder that our society desperately needs? While we live in
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Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
The taxes are too high. The people indulge in groupthink. There seems to be a system in place to prevent free thought, free action, and free movement. Everyone is more preoccupied with fitness than having a good time. Racism is a problem. When did America’s cities become like 1950s suburbs? I recently moved out of
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Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Whatever one’s opinion on government helping low-income or no-income individuals have roofs over their heads, it’s probably safe to say that most people would be outraged by a government program that gives some people nearly $4,000/mo. for housing while others get less than $1,000/mo. Too extreme to believe? Here’s what Chicago’s Sun Times is reporting:
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A Snapshot of James Madison’s Reading List0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
When it comes to reading and literacy, America is having a hard time. Statistics show that 14 percent of adults can’t read, and 50 percent of adults can’t read a book written at an 8th-grade level. Fortunately for our nation, America’s founders did not fit into the illiterate or ill-read category. Their book lists and
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6 Facts about Caesar’s Assassination a Culturally-Literate Person Should Know0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Today is the Ides of March, on which date Julius Caesar was assassinated over 2,000 years ago. Reading through at least one of the historical accounts of Julius Caesar’s assassination used to be a staple of American education, but not so anymore. As such, details of his assassination which were previously common knowledge are now
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