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  • Americans Need a Lesson From ‘The 1620 Project’

    Americans Need a Lesson From ‘The 1620 Project’0

    This week marks a momentous anniversary for the United States. On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set off on the voyage which launched the birth of a new nation. Once upon a time, such an anniversary would have been greeted with pomp and circumstance. As Mark David Hall notes in his Chronicles article, “The 1620

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  • Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?

    Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?0

    My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)

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  • The Other Half of the Jacob Blake Conversation

    The Other Half of the Jacob Blake Conversation0

    It’s time to talk about Jacob Blake and policing reform. No, I mean the other half of that conversation. The part where we ask what Jacob Blake did wrong and why it matters. We cannot have meaningful policing reform if we pretend that law enforcement officers do not see our actions as civilians from a

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  • Elon Musk Goes Full Tony Stark On ‘Modern Day Robber Baron’ Claim

    Elon Musk Goes Full Tony Stark On ‘Modern Day Robber Baron’ Claim0

    Tesla founder Elon Musk is often compared to Tony Stark, the self-described “genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist” who fights bad guys in his high-tech “Iron Man” suit in the Marvel movies, as played by Robert Downey, Jr. It’s no wonder, given that Downey, Jr. partially based his characterization of Stark on Musk. The similarities between Musk

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  • Divorced With Kids and COVID

    Divorced With Kids and COVID0

    Even in the best of times, it’s difficult for divorced or separated parents to cooperate in raising their children. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated what are already fraught circumstances in this regard. The Washington Post brought to my attention a public health concern of the pandemic which I had not thought of before. Surprisingly, coming from

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  • Critical Race Theory Is Just the Tip of Woke Government Training

    Critical Race Theory Is Just the Tip of Woke Government Training0

    The Trump Administration put critical race theory on notice this month. The White House issued a directive outlawing the inclusion of exercises based on this theory in government training. “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division

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  • President Trump’s Ban on Critical Race Theory, Explained

    President Trump’s Ban on Critical Race Theory, Explained0

    With the November election just around the corner, it’s only to be expected that President Trump would seek to rally conservative voters and drive his supporters to the polls. So, when his administration, on September 4, instructed the federal government to eliminate all training in “Critical Race Theory,” some thought it was just a red-meat

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  • NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners

    NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners0

    On the first day of classes, a high school teacher in Westchester County issued an assignment that included a comic style strip comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members, the New York Post reported. The assignment was part of a chapter on “European Colonization of America,” given by Westlake High School

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  • Kansas City Fans Were Right to Boo at Chiefs’ Opening Game

    Kansas City Fans Were Right to Boo at Chiefs’ Opening Game0

    The media in its “reporting” of NFL fans’ reaction to wokeness on the football field lets us know what “good people” should think. Just take a look at a few headlines: From NBC News: K.C. Chiefs fans’ booing moment of unity for ‘ongoing fight for equality’ mars NFL home opener The Kansas City Star: After shameful boos

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