Blog 3 Columns

To Have Kids … or Not?21
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2025
Let’s clear up some confusion often conveyed by the media. A headline for an article borrowed from The Epoch Times reads, “US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low.” The headline for the actual article on The Epoch Times more accurately reads, “Births in US Increase as Fertility Rate Drops.” People often confuse birth rates with fertility rates. The Encyclopedia Britannica
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Family + Science Is Not the Magic Equation ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Thinks It Is 35
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Science, Uncategorized
- July 25, 2025
“Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel’s 2019 conclusion to over a decade of storytelling, earned over $2.7 billion at the global box office. It was a worldwide sensation. Recently, however, Disney’s superhero brand has had trouble at the multiplex. You know that feeling when you stay too long at a party? And you realize, “Wait, I’m not supposed to
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For Culture’s Sake, Relax!23
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 25, 2025
I once asked a friend whether he was “handy.” “Unfortunately, yes,” he replied. When a latch broke, or a faucet didn’t work, or a screen door needed replacing, he could never bring himself to hire someone to do the work. He could take care of it. He just didn’t want to. I am not handy.
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It Takes a Certain Kind of Village to Raise the Spirits of a Parent 23
- Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized
- July 24, 2025
Most people don’t fear children; instead, they fear the loneliness that will come when they have children. Parents give up a lot when they bring children into the world. Social interactions as a mom or dad lack spontaneity. A parent’s coming and going is limited by childcare options or the commotion of getting a baby
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Let’s Make Every Day a National Day of Prayer 23
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- July 23, 2025
From its beginnings, America was a praying nation. On June 7, 1775, for instance, the Continental Congress issued a proclamation put together by John Adams, William Hooper, and Robert Paine that set aside a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” in hopes “that a speedy end may be put to the civil discord between Great Britain and
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Think Like an Owner: The Interview 15
- Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 23, 2025
Over the last twenty-five years, I have conducted a couple thousand interviews at our computer company. Many candidates claim empathy as a strength, declaring they excel at putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. But from my experience, few truly understand what matters to a business owner. And, while I’m not the owner of our company,
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Know Thyself By Knowing the Temperaments 25
- Culture, Featured, History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- July 22, 2025
Between pop psychology, personality tests, enneagrams, and horoscopes, there’s someone on every corner giving the answer to the self. But the quest for self-discovery is nothing new. The ancient Greeks had their own Myers-Briggs: the four temperaments. In fact, much of our current personality analysis boils down to these. A temperament refers to the natural
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To Build Up America, We Must Start Close to Home 19
- Culture, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- July 21, 2025
In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy famously urged, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” That sentence shines with rhetorical beauty and balance, but might be more accurate by changing one word: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you
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In Praise of Print 27
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 21, 2025
Fragmented. Distracted. So often, that’s our experience of the internet. Whenever I launch a browser, I am assaulted by an overwhelming mudslide of information, headlines, graphics, photos and videos splashing and splurging across the page, each vying for my attention. Clicking over to social media, I’m inundated with a new firehose of topics, tags, talking
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