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  • Why Kim Witczak Became a Pharmaceutical Drug Safety Advocate

    Why Kim Witczak Became a Pharmaceutical Drug Safety Advocate0

    For 20 years, Kim Witczak has been a pharmaceutical drug safety advocate, though her profession is marketing. Her advocacy began when her husband died by suicide at 37 after he’d been prescribed Zoloft weeks before for insomnia. “I’m an accidental drug safety advocate,” she said. “Since my husband died by suicide in August 2003, it

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  • If Pedophiles Ruled the World

    If Pedophiles Ruled the World1

    With the sobering and inspiring film Sound of Freedom hitting theatres this week, we are faced with the reality that there is a huge appetite for child sex throughout the world. While Operation Underground Railroad is fighting the child sex movement, there is an international effort pushing it forward in the name of “children’s rights”. Here is a crucial

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  • Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’

    Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’6

    There’s something rotten at the core of our civilization, a rottenness that has hidden like an undetected cancer under the surface of society for far too long. I speak of the systematic abuse of children on a massive scale through child sex trafficking. The film Sound of Freedom, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Jim

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  • Architecture and Its Secret Vibes of Truth and Value

    Architecture and Its Secret Vibes of Truth and Value3

    I recently splurged and visited Mackinac Island with a few friends. The island, located between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, is perhaps best known for its automobile ban, relegating all traffic to foot, horse, or bike. Perhaps because of this ban, Mackinac Island functions as a type of time capsule, with beautiful homes,

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  • Don’t Forget to Sing

    Don’t Forget to Sing0

    I have a postcard on my office door with a Samuel Beckett quote I like on it. It reads, in my sanitized English translation, “When you are in it up to your neck, the only thing left to do is sing.” Even on relatively bad days, I am very, very far from being in it

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  • Emotion-Based Schooling Is Not the Education Our Children Need

    Emotion-Based Schooling Is Not the Education Our Children Need1

    To mark the end of the school year, Gallup enlisted students in grades 5-12 to rank their schools in a June report card. With an average grade of B-, the overall score isn’t so bad. Looking closer at the individual categories, however, tells a different story. As the chart below shows, the higher ranking categories were in

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  • Family Farms and Faith: Lessons From Irish Culture

    Family Farms and Faith: Lessons From Irish Culture2

    I recently visited Ireland, and amidst the rugged moors covered in gorse bushes and the patchworked sheep fields divided by hedges, family farms once dotted the landscape as a cornerstone of the country. Ireland was, at one point, a country rooted in its traditions—from these farms to a strong Catholic faith. In turn, the role

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  • What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains

    What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains0

    The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.

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  • Myth and Materialism

    Myth and Materialism3

    I’ll never forget reading my first chemistry textbook. The thesis of the introduction was that everything can be explained by chemistry. Everything. From the weather to plants to human thought and human behavior. I remember feeling particular disgust when the textbook claimed that what we call love is actually just the interaction and activation of

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