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Homeowner Shoots Teen Breaking in to Home, Family of Teen Livid at Homeowner1
- Culture
- March 16, 2016
Any family who just received word that their teenager was shot and killed would be understandably devastated, upset, and angry. But how do you react if your teenager was shot after breaking in to someone’s home? Do you primarily blame the homeowner or the teenager? While all of the details are not in on a
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College Student learns the World isn’t Nice0
- Culture
- March 16, 2016
The Guardian reports: “North Korea has sentenced an American college student to 15 years’ hard labour after finding him guilty of ‘crimes against the state’, in a ruling that is certain to increase tensions with Washington. Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old economics student at the University of Virginia, was found guilty of committing ‘severe crimes’ against
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A Convincing Case for Saying ‘Y’all’?0
- Culture
- March 16, 2016
Grammarians and lovers of the English language will either be intrigued or horrified by a recent piece for The Atlantic. In it, writer Vann R. Newkirk II makes the case that “y’all” NEEDS to be adopted into common usage beyond the American south. Newkirk points out that there are “no distinct second-person plural pronouns in
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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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