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Public School Teacher Has Been Late 111 Times in Two Years, Keeps Job 0
- August 31, 2015
Public school teachers have some of the most envious job protections among any in the workforce. They receive tenure after only two or three years, which makes it extremely difficult and costly to fire them. The latest case in point: Arnold Anderson, an elementary school teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Over the past two
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Polygamists Sue to Have Their ‘Marriages’ Recognised 0
- August 31, 2015
It didn’t take long. Within weeks of the US Supreme Court decision to legalise same-sex marriage, polygamous families have sued to have their own relationships recognised as marriages. Kody Brown and his four wives are the stars of Sister Wives, the reality TV show about the day-to-day life of a polygamous family. The Browns used
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Learning from a Little Princess 0
- August 31, 2015
When it comes to life lessons, classic children’s books have a special way of conveying truths and wisdom. They don’t beat a child over the head or talk down to the child. Instead, the child comes to identify with the characters, seeing who is good and who is bad, and learning from the dialogue. The
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If You Don’t Want to be Marked Down for Using Trigger Words, DON’T TAKE THESE CLASSES!0
- August 31, 2015
Another example of the censorial character of modern universities is making its way around the internet. According to the original article in Campus Reform (a conservative site), “Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ and ‘female,’ or if they
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Do Tablets Detract from Parent-Child Bonding Time?0
- August 31, 2015
Are tablet computers harming our children’s ability to read? That’s a question asked by a recent article in The Guardian. A definitive answer remains rather illusive. Because tablets and many other tech devices are relatively new, it’s difficult to definitively determine if tablet usage is leading to a decline in reading. Some studies show it
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Thomas Jefferson Had Some Issues with Newspapers 0
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- August 28, 2015
Thomas Jefferson truly believed that a free people require a free press. On the other hand, he really loathed newspapers, as illustrated by the following 10 quotes: 1. “The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any
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The Porn Debate 0
- August 28, 2015
The debate over the rightness or wrongness of pornography has arisen again with the news about Josh Duggar’s infidelities, which he in part attributes to an addiction to internet pornography. When it comes to the morality of pornography, it seems there are two main competing views today. One view holds that looking at pornography is
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The 7 Social Sins 0
- August 28, 2015
Interestingly, you usually see the above “sins” attributed to Gandhi, as he published them in his weekly newspaper in 1925. But Gandhi is not the origin of this list. Rather it was first uttered earlier that year in a sermon delivered in Westminster Abbey by an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson. Here is a picture
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Remember This Line?0
- August 28, 2015
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Spoken by Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint, it’s probably the most oft-quoted line from the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects. Some people mistakenly attribute it to C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, which involves a dialogue between two demons who are trying to bring about the
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Public School Teacher Has Been Late 111 Times in Two Years, Keeps Job 0