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Beating a Blind Kid0
- September 24, 2015
How many times have you heard it said that violence is never the answer? Well, what’s the right response for the situation found in this video that allegedly shows a blind teen being hit by another teen? We don’t know what transpired beforehand, but we can recognize the inability of the blind teen to defend
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Top 10 Yogi Berra Quotes0
- September 23, 2015
Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra passed away last night at the age of 90. He was a man famous not only for baseball, but also for his propensity to utter things that made people do a double take. Some assumed that he was just confused, but others have seen profundity in Yogi’s quotes. According to sportswriter Phil Pepe,
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The Pope Francis Media Circus is a Two-Edged Sword0
- September 23, 2015
The excitement surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to America is the closest Catholics get to Beatlemania. Hundreds of thousands are hoping to catch a glimpse of the pope when he is in D.C., New York, and Philadelphia this week. My Facebook feed has seen more than one post from those with golden tickets to see the
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How This Teacher Makes $4 Million per Year0
- September 23, 2015
Teachers in America frequently complain that they are underpaid. But that is not a complaint you will hear from South Korean teacher, Andrew Kim, who made $4 million in 2010. Profiled in Amanda Ripley’s bestseller The Smartest Kids in the World, Kim is known in South Korea as a “rock-star teacher.” For over twenty years,
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Why Are Some People Bad at Listening?0
- September 22, 2015
Most of us have had the experience of being with a bad listener. There’s the person who looks at his phone while you speak and periodically nods his head and mutters “Mmm Hmm.” There’s the one who stares blankly at you with a mix of boredom and resentment, just praying that you will soon stop
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What Would You Do if $1,300 Showed Up in Your Pizza Delivery Box?0
- September 22, 2015
Ben Franklin once famously said, “Honesty is the best policy.” A California man recently discovered the truth of that statement. According to CBS Sacramento, Mike Vegas had several items from Domino’s Pizza delivered to his house the other day. When he went back to eat the leftovers, he discovered he had received a bonus. A
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Well, This 1835 Warning to America Was on Target0
- September 22, 2015
A passage from Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 classic Democracy in America. It’s from chapter 6 entitled “What Sort Of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear”: “I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men all equal and alike,
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This is news?0
- September 22, 2015
I’ve been told that the video about a rat dragging a pizza is trending in the news. I’m sure it’s good clickbait material, which we might even benefit from, too. But at least we’re being honest. USA Today, “the nation’s newspaper”, got in on it: ABC News joined in, too: Where would we be without knowing that
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Making Parents Responsible0
- September 22, 2015
There is a lot of talk about the government needing to help single parents or to take care of children. In some cases, charity is absolutely necessary. But is it possible that we overemphasize the need of government, particularly the federal government, to help? In so doing, do we forget the natural and just duties
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