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  • High School Football or Day Care?

    High School Football or Day Care?3

    Football season is almost over, but for the past couple months, middle school students who attended high school games in several Oklahoma cities have had to sit with their parents at all times. At some schools, even if they go to the bathroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. The Oklahoma schools’ rules were

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  • 1 in Every 39 Americans Will Die of a Drug Overdose at Current Rate

    1 in Every 39 Americans Will Die of a Drug Overdose at Current Rate0

    Overview Despite the passage of state and federal laws that were supposed to reduce fatal drug overdoses, the annual U.S. drug overdose death rate has quintupled over recent decades: Over the most current year of available data, more than 110,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, a rate of 33 per 100,000 population.

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  • Teaching Your Child to Read: The Gateway to All Learning

    Teaching Your Child to Read: The Gateway to All Learning1

    When my husband and I decided we were going to homeschool, we puzzled over what might be his contribution. Our division of labor as a married couple included me as a stay-at-home mom and him as the primary breadwinner. Nevertheless, we wanted to find a way for him to be involved in the educational aspects

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  • The Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists

    The Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists9

    Have you encountered the antinatalists yet? This is a growing phenomenon in contemporary America, especially among the young. We might call them the “No Children Movement,” as they advocate a rejection of parenthood as a conscious political act, saying it is morally wrong to have children. You have only to plug the search term antinatalist

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  • The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight0

    Recently, my wife and I had occasion to shop at Trader Joe’s just before closing time. The docks to the storage level were open, and the space inside was stacked from floor to ceiling. Workers were unloading trucks and adding to the brightly lit cornucopia. What happens at night is invisible to the thousands of

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  • Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception

    Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception0

    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows,” says Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. Later in the novel we read, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” In 2020, our

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