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  • America’s Got Talent and ’Tis the Season to Remember Those Gifts

    America’s Got Talent and ’Tis the Season to Remember Those Gifts0

    A week before Christmas, I attended a performance of The Nutcracker in the Old Opera House Theater in Charles Town, West Virginia. My presence was obligatory. My five-year-old granddaughter and her class of budding ballerinas appeared as dancing Lady Bugs for a brief time on the stage, a part undoubtedly added by the director to

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  • Peace in the Maddening Maze of Life

    Peace in the Maddening Maze of Life0

    The end of December is always a good time to reminisce and take stock of our lives. This seems especially appropriate as many of us have come through yet another difficult year—rising prices, vaccine mandates, and increased Orwellian censorship to name just a few problems—and don’t have a lot of hope that things will improve.

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  • No, ‘More People Carrying Guns’ Does Not Tend to ‘Result in More Shootings.’

    No, ‘More People Carrying Guns’ Does Not Tend to ‘Result in More Shootings.’0

    A couple of months ago, The Atlantic published an article written by staff writer David A. Graham that explores the surge of violence the United States experienced in 2020. Overall the article, which analyzes findings from the FBI’s “Uniform Crime Report,” is quite good. It effectively breaks down what we know and—more importantly—what we don’t

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  • Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can

    Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can0

    Reading through online headlines I often see a story entitled, “Demi Moore at 58 Hasn’t Aged Well.” Though I’ve never clicked on that link, I did google “Demi Moore at 58” and thought she looked pretty darn good. Sure, she’s probably gone under the plastic surgeon’s knife a few times—those high cheek bones seem a

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  • Surviving Suffering Like a Champ

    Surviving Suffering Like a Champ0

    When a friend challenged me to a reading contest on Goodreads a couple of years ago, I was reluctant. Did I really want my reading selections broadcast on the internet for friends and strangers to see? Despite this qualm, my arm was twisted, and I began recording the books I read, often giving them a

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  • Taking a Breather From the Culture Wars Via Holiday Romance

    Taking a Breather From the Culture Wars Via Holiday Romance0

    Good grief! What has happened to me?          In the past week, I read A Christmas Courtship, by Shelly Shepard Gray, intending to review this romantic holiday novel for the Smoky Mountain News before realizing it would be too late for the holiday shopping season. Not only that, but in some fit

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  • Biden Holds a Losing Hand

    Biden Holds a Losing Hand0

    As President Joe Biden’s poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word. Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a “transitional president.” He intends to run and win a second term. Well, perhaps. Yet, skepticism abounds.  First, if Biden

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  • The Truth About Gender IQ Differences

    The Truth About Gender IQ Differences19

    In all the brouhaha about diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and woke politics, the fact that there are real, observable differences between the sexes is often overlooked. This is particularly the case when it comes to the “intelligence quotient” or IQ. Everything else under the sun has been mentioned, over and over again, as an

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  • Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America

    Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America0

    As Pontius Pilate nears the end of his interrogation in the most fateful trial in history, Jesus says, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”          To which Pilate replies, “What is truth?”          Or as some might say today, “I have my truth, you have your

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