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Bored No More: What Escaping Government Schools Can Do for Our Kids8
It continually amazes me to see the proliferation of good coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding its effects on the education system and the students in it. Yes, the attempt to somehow transfer the traditional classroom to an online environment was a disaster that left many students bored … but another story has
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A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny10
Staying upbeat these days sometimes requires the strength of a Samson, the mind-set of a Millennialist, the heart of a Pollyanna, and a bottle of New Amsterdam Vodka. I lacked all of these weapons one recent evening. I’ve taken a leave of absence from alcohol, and the other attributes were as remote from me as
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At Teachers Union Convention, Indoctrination Eclipses Education6
- Education, Politics, Uncategorized
- July 13, 2022
As a teacher, I attended the National Education Association convention last week, and my worst fears were confirmed. Public schools are no longer a safe place for families who hold traditional values or for families who believe gender (as in male/female binary) is biologically determined. It was also evident that the teachers union is a
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No Place Like Home to Help Freedom Grow6
- Culture, Economics, Family, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- July 12, 2022
While having dinner with a Chinese couple several years ago, I listened as they described their visiting parents’ response to the American landscape. Having recently arrived from China, the parents’ amazement about the Dakotas was particularly amusing. “So much space!” was the loose translation. “They could build so many apartments!” I laughed heartily at the
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New York Times to Biden—Time to Go!0
- Politics
- July 12, 2022
When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night, he likely did not expect to find a severed horse’s head under his bed covers. But there it was, courtesy of The New York Times. “At 79, Biden is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency” ran the headline over Sunday’s devastating front-page
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MADS, the Condition Ravaging America6
Since 9/11, which now seems light years away, the American body politic has taken hooks to the ribs and uppercuts to the chin that would have knocked any champion pugilist down for the count. The last three years in particular have delivered these blows at warp speed. The strange election of 2020, the precipitous decline
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The Courage to Dissent…From the Left1
As the COVID-19 pandemic moves into endemic mode throughout the world, we need serious introspection upon and analysis of the public health response. The unprecedented public health response to the pandemic; lockdowns, the censorship by Big Tech of dissenting medical voices and treatment options along with conflicting views on masking, vaccine, school closures, and social-distancing
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More Evidence That School Mask Mandates Are Not Effective2
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that mask mandates did little to nothing to curb the spread of COVID-19. The latest research further undermines the controversial policy. A new study analyzing a pair of schools in Fargo, North Dakota—one which had a mask mandate in place in the fall of the 2021-2022 academic year
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The Last Defense Against Tyranny5
- Politics, Western Civilization
- July 8, 2022
Feminist writer Naomi Wolf, once beloved by progressives, has decided to go a different direction in the last few years. She has written much about totalitarianism and believes the United States is marching swiftly along the road to such a dictatorship. Needless to say, her former comrades are outraged. Recently, Wolf courageously wrote and published
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