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Extra! Extra! Boy Walks to School!0
A Michigan story getting a lot of attention for reasons you can probably figure out on your own is headlined: “10-year-old Grosse Pointe Park boy walked to school every day for 4 years. He plans to keep the streak going.” Yup. Real headline, real kid, real indication of all sorts of rather depressing things about
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Keeping Children Safe Is the Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do0
When my three sons were young, they were all good at skateboarding. They built their own short ramps all over our property, but especially enjoyed the ramp a neighbor built in his barn. It was against the rules to go on this ramp alone; nevertheless, my 10-year-old went over there one day unnoticed, had a
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Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies2
- Education, Family, Politics, Uncategorized
- June 23, 2022
For a brief moment last week, President Joe Biden’s administration appeared to be interested in what parents think about K-12 schools. Low student achievement coming out of the pandemic. High rates of depression among youth. School officials hiding information about students’ health from their parents. The administration seemed to be aware of these concerns when it announced the creation of a National
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The Supreme Court Stands Up for the Right to Self-Defense0
- Politics
- June 23, 2022
The Supreme Court’s infamous 2007 decision DC vs Heller recognized that the Second Amendment established a right to bear arms in self-defense. But in the years since, the high court has hardly taken any gun rights cases further fleshing out this precedent—leaving loopholes states have exploited to restrict citizens’ right to self-defense. No more. In a
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Joe Biden’s Secret Unification Plan for America4
- Politics
- June 22, 2022
Are we being too tough on President Joe Biden? Sure, the country is falling apart. Inflation is eating up household budgets and retirement plans. Certain goods have gone missing from the shelves of our grocery stores. Baby formula and now even tampons have become scarce. Through-the-roof increases in the cost of gasoline are emptying our
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Red-Flagging Red-Flag Law Abuse1
- Politics
- June 22, 2022
Here we go again. The Beltway Swamp’s ineluctable impulse to (Pretend To) Do Something in the wake of a mass school shooting committed by a homicidal maniac has put America on the brink of greenlighting untold civil liberties abuses in the name of “safety.” The grandstanding gun-grabbing reflex is a hard habit to break. Shamefully,
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The Inflation Cure1
If you think runaway inflation is brutal, wait until you get hit by the cure. Last week, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate on money it lends to other banks by .75 percent, the biggest hike in three decades. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the hike is necessary to rein in skyrocketing inflation. He’s
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To Gain More Freedom, American Morality Must Increase9
American morality is in decline, and the population is starting to take note. Half of Americans—a record high number—now rate U.S. morals as “poor,” according to a recent Gallup poll. “Consideration of others” is the leading indicator of this moral decline, Americans say, followed by “racism/discrimination.” Yet we really didn’t need a poll to tell
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The Unsolved Mystery of the Missing (Real) Journalists9
- Politics
- June 20, 2022
Suppose you were a reporter without an agenda, no ax to grind, no political affiliation. You never stepped foot inside a school of journalism. Even better, following in the tradition of old-time journalists like H. L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, or Rose Wilder Lane, you never attended college. You read history, economics, and political science, you
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