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Blog 3 Columns

  • Dimming the IQ of America

    Dimming the IQ of America0

    Americans and Europeans are getting dumber. At least that’s the conclusion David Solway reaches in his piece “The Decline of Intelligence in the West.” In the last century various studies have shown the average IQ in Western countries dropping by about 14 percent, Solway reports. He points readers to these investigations and offers a score

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  • Teaching About Riots and Democracy

    Teaching About Riots and Democracy0

    [The setting: a classroom on a liberal arts campus somewhere in the American northeast. A young, very enlightened professor addresses students in her course “Getting Woke, Bashing the Fash: Intro to Critical Studies” following a screening of the 13-minute video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot shown at the opening of the latest impeachment trial

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  • Manufacturing More Mom Guilt

    Manufacturing More Mom Guilt0

    A little over a year ago I got a note from a reader who told me she was leaving her present job for a better one. She was climbing the ladder of success and… heading home. That’s right, her new job was one which the corporate world might frown upon, with responsibilities including changing diapers,

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  • Reason Can’t Prevail Against an Irrational Opposition

    Reason Can’t Prevail Against an Irrational Opposition0

    “Mandalorian” star Gina Carano made headlines this week when she was fired from Disney. Her crime? Authoring a social media post comparing the censorship of conservatives to Nazi persecution. Disney’s decision set off a salvo of justified attacks on the company. But while the self-righteous anger is gratifying to fans both of Carano’s acting and

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  • More Than Hearts and Roses

    More Than Hearts and Roses0

    For years, my wife used to celebrate Valentine’s Day. She’d post hearts and flowers around the house, have the kids write cards to their friends and grandparents, and give them those heart-shaped candies embossed with sayings like “Be Mine” and “Luv You.” All too often I was one of those shame-faced guys standing in a

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  • Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party

    Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party0

    It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party.           On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump seemed to have lost the White House by narrowly losing three crucial blue states he had won in 2016—Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and Georgia and Arizona as well. Trump immediately mounted an acrimonious two-month

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  • Politicians Seem Loath to Let COVID End

    Politicians Seem Loath to Let COVID End0

    Two weeks to “slow the spread” proved to be a lie as state government stay-at-home orders stretched on and on, being taken away and reintroduced at the whims of governors rather than by acts of the various legislatures. Even when we were permitted out of our homes, they imposed rules on who we could visit,

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  • Live Not By Lies, But Turn Your Back on Reality

    Live Not By Lies, But Turn Your Back on Reality1

    Accounts from individuals, many unknown to Americans, who gave their treasures and lives to defy totalitarianism fill Rod Dreher’s latest book, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. Their stories should inspire all of us in the age of fear and fraud we now inhabit. But there’s one problem—a huge problem—with Dreher’s take

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  • Applying the Greene Standard to Rev. Sharpton

    Applying the Greene Standard to Rev. Sharpton0

    Because of offensive tweets posted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., before she won office, House Democrats joined by 11 Republicans voted to strip her of her committee assignments. If this is the new standard, can we apply this to the Rev. Al Sharpton, aka a Democratic “kingmaker,” whose support was solicited by every major

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