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  • Right and Wrong According to “Secret Agent” C.S. Lewis

    Right and Wrong According to “Secret Agent” C.S. Lewis0

    While browsing through headlines this morning, one in particular caught my eye: “C.S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent.” My curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the article by Harry Lee Poe. Poe, a Lewis aficionado, described how he recently stumbled across a recording of C.S. Lewis on eBay. The recording

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  • Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya”

    Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya”0

    The News Story – Reduce violence, teach children compassion and peace As crime rates continue to rise in many cities, the media continues to debate how to curb violent behavior before it starts. A Wednesday column entitled “Parenting with Pete” in a New Jersey newspaper exemplifies a typical response. “Stopping violence needs to begin long before a

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  • Our Over-Controlled Society is Damaging Children’s Social Skills

    Our Over-Controlled Society is Damaging Children’s Social Skills0

    Have you ever wondered what happened to the days when children could roam through the neighborhood, building forts in empty lots, walking to the store a half mile away, and inventing all sorts of games to play up and down the block? According to Angela Hanscom’s column in today’s Washington Post, well-intentioned caution has caused

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  • American Students Don’t Know History

    American Students Don’t Know History0

    As we and many others have pointed out, many policy debates these days devolve quickly into emotionalism. Should we be surprised when too many American students lack the tools with which to engage in public discourse? According to the Nation’s Report Card, produced by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which is considered the

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  • A Fatal Tendency of Mankind

    A Fatal Tendency of Mankind0

    Here’s what the Library of Economics and Liberty has to say about Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): “Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat nearly a century after his death as ‘the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived.’ Orphaned at the age of nine, Bastiat tried his hand at commerce, farming, and insurance sales. In 1825, after he inherited

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  • This 1896 Text Gives One Clue on Handling High School Discipline

    This 1896 Text Gives One Clue on Handling High School Discipline0

    The prevalence of school discipline issues has escalated in recent years, so much so, that last Friday, a Minnesota high school student assaulted a teacher during a fight, leaving him with traumatic brain injury. How do we restore order and handle such glaring discipline issues in our schools? An 1896 article by Chas. L. Biedenbach

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  • The solution to school debt? Prostitution.

    The solution to school debt? Prostitution.0

    The old joke calls prostitution “the world’s oldest profession”. Alas, in our ever-changing world of words, some of today’s prostitutes prefer a different term: “Sugar Baby”. It’s all about marketing, right? From the NY Post: “After a sushi dinner a few years ago, the date of Sara-Kate, then a college student living in Boston, suggested

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  • The Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism

    The Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism0

    “Capitalism” and “socialism” both are 19th century ideological tags; they delude and ensnare, as do all ideologies. Zealots for “democratic capitalism” seem to have forgotten that it was Karl Marx who made the word “capitalism” a theoretical concept. Surviving enthusiasts for an abstraction called “socialism” impose killing burdens upon themselves by endeavoring to maintain a

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  • Sharia Law: Accepted in America?

    Sharia Law: Accepted in America?0

    • December 10, 2015

    This week, Pew Research Center released a report with a number of interesting facts on the Muslim religion. According to the report, the Muslim population is projected to overtake the Christian population by the year 2100. Such an occurrence would make Islam the largest religion in the world. If Islam does become the largest religion

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