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  • Friday Comic: Vive la Différence0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization

    A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization4

    Memorization and recitation became part of my life through a club I was part of in middle and high school. With the club, I had the opportunity to recite patriotic speeches and poems along with chapters from the Bible in front of an audience of veterans, law enforcement officers, and first responders just about every

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  • Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It

    Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It1

    Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is “liberalism”? Its meaning shifts depending on whether one is speaking of economics or politics or ethics. Edmund Fawcett’s excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, surveys scores of

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  • Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer

    Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer9

    Upon learning that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was knocked out of the Women’s World Cup after a 5-4 loss to Sweden, I was not very sympathetic toward the team. It was particularly fitting that Megan Rapinoe, the team’s sour-faced forward and chief political activist, missed an important goal kick near the end of

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  • Stupefying the Privileged

    Stupefying the Privileged3

    A recent discussion with a friend of mine turned to COVID and its effects on her children, particularly in the ways the schools responded to the situation. COVID, she explained, really escalated the use of screens in school. Before COVID, politicians and others could commonly be heard extolling the need for every child to have

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  • DeSantis Suspends Second Soft-on-Crime State Attorney

    DeSantis Suspends Second Soft-on-Crime State Attorney1

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has used his executive power to spectacularly suspend a second state attorney in just over a year. Until last Wednesday, Monique Worrell oversaw Florida’s 9th judicial circuit, covering Orange and Osceola counties, which include the city of Orlando. But not any longer. “I am today announcing the suspension of state attorney

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  • Not So Wild West

    Not So Wild West1

    In the 1952 movie High Noon, Gary Cooper plays a retired town Marshall who decides that he must face off against a gang member who is returning to town. The Marshall’s new bride is a pacifist and doesn’t want him to face this villain. Also discouraging is that the townspeople will not stand by him. He

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  • How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar

    How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar6

    “Familiarity breeds contempt” runs the old adage, and contempt leads to ingratitude and unhappiness. What makes a husband impatient with his wife, whom he would never have dreamed of snapping at when they were first dating? Familiarity. What makes one’s work dull and draining? Familiarity. What makes us bored of our home, our family, our

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  • Federal Report on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein Is Rife With Evidence of Foul Play

    Federal Report on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein Is Rife With Evidence of Foul Play2

    More than 20 years after a woman named Maria Farmer first reported Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the FBI in 1996 for molesting children, the federal government finally arrested Epstein in 2019 for “sex trafficking of minors.” Only five weeks later, this uber-wealthy financier with hordes of friends in high places was dead. In

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