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  • Higher Gas Prices Ahead

    Higher Gas Prices Ahead3

    If you think gas prices are high now, just wait. They’re going to get much higher, thanks to President Joe Biden’s “irreversible” plan to eliminate fossil fuels. Truth is, your pain at the pump is being planned and executed by the White House. Over the weekend, buyers paid $5 a gallon to fill the tank—or

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  • What Really Happened to Justin Bieber?

    What Really Happened to Justin Bieber?2

    Everyone with a phone or computer has seen the mega-viral videos and photos of 28-year-old pop star Justin Bieber. “As you can see, this eye is not blinking,” he told his whopping 241 million Instagram followers last weekend. Bieber’s handsome face is drooping and lopsided; he “can’t smile,” his “nostril will not move,” and “there’s

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  • The Bitter Mirth of Today’s Headlines

    The Bitter Mirth of Today’s Headlines3

    Most mornings I get up around dawn, pour some coffee, and look at the headlines. Those news reports nearly always range from the dire to the ridiculous. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I want to cry, and lots of times I fall into a funk. In this review of some headlines from the last two weeks,

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  • Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America

    Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America1

    Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught

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  • Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime

    Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime2

    It was, Nzinga Terrell-Brown hoped, the beginning of her dream of becoming a teacher. In 2018, when she got a job as a teacher’s aide, her future looked bright. But a couple months in, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on?

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  • Yes, the Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not

    Yes, the Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not2

    The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone can see that virtually everything is getting more expensive, but fewer have noticed that many items are also getting smaller. On Wednesday the Associated Press ran an article under the headline “No, you’re not imagining it — package

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