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  • Top Schools Think 7th and 8th Graders Should Be Able to Read These Books

    Top Schools Think 7th and 8th Graders Should Be Able to Read These Books0

    Schools that use a classical curriculum have a reputation as being more rigorous than their peers.   To see if this reputation is deserved, we conducted a survey of over 100 classical schools (both secular and religious) across the country to see what students were reading at each grade level. We were hoping our audiences

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  • Target Porn

    Target Porn0

    Target’s taking some heat for the second time in several months over its choice of store music. According to reports coming out of one of its California stores, Target played pornographic audio over its loudspeakers on the morning of October 14th. The Star Tribune reported that “The string of moans and groans [were] laced with

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  • Free Markets Need Moral People

    Free Markets Need Moral People0

    The free market economy has been a boon for America in many ways. It has promoted innovation and upward social mobility, and provided many men and women with a high quality of life. But as with all human systems, it’s not perfect, and has been susceptible to certain ills such as unjust wages, cronyism, and

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  • C.S. Lewis on Fapping

    C.S. Lewis on Fapping0

    First Things recently reposted an article called “Escaping the Prison of the Self” that includes some insights from C.S. Lewis on the topic of masturbation. What’s interesting is that the excerpt includes no reference to the Bible or religion, but rather focuses on the actual psychology of the act. According to Wesley Hill, the excerpt

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  • Americans Don’t Even Know How to Make Their Own Food Anymore

    Americans Don’t Even Know How to Make Their Own Food Anymore0

    It’s no secret that Americans like to eat – particularly at restaurants. Just last spring Bloomberg reported that Americans now spend more on dining out than they do on groceries. However, companies such as Plated and Blue Apron are trying to encourage more Americans to eat-in. They deliver meal kits to customers’ homes which offer

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  • What’s Really Wrong with the Republicans?

    What’s Really Wrong with the Republicans?0

    Another piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks is going viral. This one is entitled “The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus”. I think Brooks’ main point is in the neighborhood of the problem with today’s Republican Party: “The Republican Party’s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses,

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  • Welcome to the Draft, Ladies

    Welcome to the Draft, Ladies0

    Military.com reports that: “Women will eventually have to register for the draft if ‘true and pure equality’ is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. ‘If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects’ of the roles of women in the military,

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  • Want to Attract the Hispanic Vote? Check out this Survey.

    Want to Attract the Hispanic Vote? Check out this Survey.0

    Like it or not, election season seems to be in full swing… a year ahead of time. One of the most highly sought voting blocs is the Latino population. But if politicians are trying to gain the Latino vote by offering some form of immigration support, they may be barking up the wrong tree. Judging

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  • Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English

    Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English0

    You may think that sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s not. According to a Wall Street Journal article penned by Dr. John McWhorter of Columbia University, “The Oregon Shakespeare Festival… has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three

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