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  • Four Tricks for Teaching Manners to Young Children

    Four Tricks for Teaching Manners to Young Children0

    Most parents would agree that teaching their children to have good manners is an essential part of a good upbringing. As Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece writes in her new book Manners Begin at Breakfast: Modern Etiquette for Families, “We all want our children to go out into the world being thoughtful toward others – to grow

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  • ‘Pandemic Pods’ Make Homeschooling Easier For Parents

    ‘Pandemic Pods’ Make Homeschooling Easier For Parents0

    This tumultuous back-to-school season has parents and teachers alike scrambling to make sense of the madness: from ever-changing district directives to COVID-19 response protocols. Some school systems have announced that the academic year will start with remote-learning-only. Others are pursuing partial reopening options with both online and in-person instruction. Still others are planning to fully

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  • WaPo Outraged Americans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers

    WaPo Outraged Americans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers0

    Social scientists have been trying for many years to blame homicides on the presence of guns. A favorite tool in this quest is the use of studies that show a correlation between gun ownership and crime. These studies are then reported as “evidence” that the presence of guns causes crime. But there’s always been a

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  • The Models Were Wildly Wrong About Reopening Too

    The Models Were Wildly Wrong About Reopening Too0

    Most of the United States entered into a tepid reopening from the COVID lockdowns in mid-May. Although the reopening process has advanced through an interminable succession of bureaucratic phases with most of the country remaining under varying degrees of restriction as of mid-July, the reopening process has remained under sustained criticism from the media and

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  • The 1958 ‘Psychological Warfare’ Plan Playing Out Before Us

    The 1958 ‘Psychological Warfare’ Plan Playing Out Before Us1

    I recently wrote about an old 1984 interview with former communist Yuri Bezmenov, who described the “ideological subversion” which could eventually take down America. It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories – until one realizes that his predictions of “demoralization,” “destabilization,” and “crisis” are all unfolding before our eyes. Pondering his prophetic words, I

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  • Doublethink in the Time of Societal Upheaval

    Doublethink in the Time of Societal Upheaval0

    In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell describes how politicians hide their actions beneath generous helpings of words chosen to mislead. Today’s media-saturated environment has supersized the high-calorie, low-nutrition verbiage. The twin crises of the China virus and George Floyd unrest provide a virtual all-you-can-eat buffet. “Social Distancing” Why “social” distancing?

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  • A Free Press No More: Thoughts on America’s Enslaved Journalists

    A Free Press No More: Thoughts on America’s Enslaved Journalists0

    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” is Latin for “Who will guard the guardians themselves?” Once upon a time the guardians of freedom and fair play in America were members of the fourth estate: the press. Earlier generations thought of reporters and journalists as watchdogs, keeping their eyes on the machinations of government and rooting out corruption,

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  • Why Are Potentially Viable COVID-19 Treatments Being Suppressed?

    Why Are Potentially Viable COVID-19 Treatments Being Suppressed?0

    The only thing we know for certain about COVID-19 is that more people are dying this year than in previous years. A lot more. CDC data on deaths from all causes show an increase through May 20 of 11 percent above the average through that same date for the previous six years. That’s over 127,000

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  • Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs

    Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs0

    It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from

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