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  • Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed

    Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed0

    Writer, speaker, wife, and mother-of-five Kimberly Ells tells the story of the Hadjok family living under communist rule in Hungary before their escape over the Austrian border in The Invincible Family. By day, the two children, Vera and Johan, attended a compulsory state school, which indoctrinated them and all the other students in the tenets

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  • The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation

    The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation1

    “Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was

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  • FBI Targets Traditional Catholics

    FBI Targets Traditional Catholics4

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently disavowed a report from its Richmond field office which attempted to link traditional Catholicism to so-called white supremacy. FBI headquarters provided the following statement to The Washington Examiner on Thursday: While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product — disseminated

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  • Reasons for Rural Rejoicing

    Reasons for Rural Rejoicing1

    People living in our small town have two hobbies: cruising endless circles around the town square and complaining about living in our small town. Generations of residents in our community have been initiated into grumbling as a rural rite of passage. But, as the Bible says, “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.

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  • The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking

    The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking1

    The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters.  The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and strategies to deal with vaccine detractors.  It is not the first time that my profession has endorsed a product that may be hazardous to your health. For most of the 20th century, the AMA turned a blind

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  • The Cost of Intellectualism

    The Cost of Intellectualism7

    After a full semester of furiously studying philosophy, obsessing over essays, and panically preparing for my part in my university’s theology conference, I happened to pick up Thomas à Kempis’ devotional book, The Imitation of Christ. The experience was a substantive one in many ways—I learned more about what à Kempis thought, encountered his analytical

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