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  • It’s 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020’s COVID Playbook

    It’s 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020’s COVID Playbook0

    It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. Fear of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus is leading school officials across

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  • The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 2021

    The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 20210

    In a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, scolds—and everything besides COVID-19, which we give a blessed rest in this list! No. 1: WHY CAN’T YOU BE GOOD LIKE ME? A Beaverton, Oregon, man screamed at a lady for leaving her kid in the car while

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  • Sickening Truths and Consequences of Government COVID Policies

    Sickening Truths and Consequences of Government COVID Policies0

    American journalist H. L. Mencken once said, “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, raise the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” Dec. 30 was a day I wanted to spit on my hands. That was the day I read the introduction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real

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  • Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is

    Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is0

    While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in this crisis where 100,000 Russian troops are now stationed along the Ukrainian border? Fact one: There is not now and never has been a vital U.S. interest in Ukraine to justify risking a war with Russia. History tells

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  • Omicron Is Turning Into Om-i-con

    Omicron Is Turning Into Om-i-con0

    Like many of you, I’ve read numerous articles in the last two years about COVID-19, masks and lockdowns, deaths, vaccines, and mandates. Now the Omicron variation of COVID-19 is inundating the news. There are calls for millions of new virus tests, and in some quarters demands for more lockdowns, more masking requirements, and the cancellation

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  • Biden’s Staring into the Abyss—and So Are We

    Biden’s Staring into the Abyss—and So Are We0

    “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm.” Staring ahead on New Year’s Eve, at what appear to be the coming storms of 2022, this once-hopeful country is going

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  • Whatever Happened to the Boy Scouts?

    Whatever Happened to the Boy Scouts?2

    It was once an honor to earn a merit badge in the Boy Scouts. Becoming a Star Scout was a privilege, a Life Scout was something fantastic, and an Eagle Scout was the very tip of the apex. Few achieved that pinnacle, and those who did treasured it for their entire lives. But even those

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  • Dems Reject Work Ethic, Embrace Freeloaders

    Dems Reject Work Ethic, Embrace Freeloaders0

    The Democratic Party used to call itself the party of working people and hail the “dignity of work.” No more. Now Democrats want to guarantee people who choose not to work an income funded by the suckers who do the right thing by showing up for work, caring for their family and paying taxes. Fortunately,

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  • What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing

    What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing1

    We’re heading into two weeks (or possibly … two months? two years?) of the kids at home. It’s called Christmas break, as if it’s a break from learning. But that’s just our Puritan Work Ethic talking—the idea that if something is fun, it is a pause from our real job, which is to always be hard

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