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Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty 0
- Culture
- August 11, 2020
As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators. An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits
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Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic 0
- Culture
- August 10, 2020
“My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years. Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families
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Hundreds of Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Transgender Sports Ban 0
- Culture
- August 10, 2020
More than 300 female athletes are speaking out in support of Idaho’s decision to protect women’s sports from biological men. Female professional, Olympic, and National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes on July 29 sent a letter to the NCAA board of governors asking it to reject calls from LGBT activists to boycott Idaho over its new
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Gov. Cuomo Is Right to Worry Wealthy New Yorkers Won’t Return 0
- Economics
- August 10, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a problem. His state is looking at a $13 billion budget deficit, and New York City residents are leaving in droves. Many wealthy residents have fled to the high ends of Long Island, while many working-class New Yorkers have split for new opportunities across the country. This has resulted
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Fact-Checking Fauci 0
- Politics
- August 10, 2020
In recent congressional testimony Dr. Anthony Fauci, the primary architect of the Trump administration’s COVID response, painted a bleak picture about the United States’ ability to contain the pandemic. According to Fauci’s narrative, the United States is experiencing a resurgence in regional COVID outbreaks because it failed to sufficiently lock down back in March, and
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Eviction Freezes Are Hurting the Little Guy 0
- Economics
- August 10, 2020
The months of quarantine and subsequent riots have brought changes few predicted. Calls to defund the police and the lawlessness of places like Portland have sent the sale of firearms through the roof. The closure of schools and move to distance learning have many parents and students taking a hard look at education, resulting in many new
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Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?0
- Culture
- August 10, 2020
This week, I met a good friend of mine at a local restaurant, the first time we’d got together since before the onset of the pestilence. He is a Presbyterian pastor and a great lover of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was, in fact, Tolkien who had introduced us to each other, in the
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What Happened to Liberalism?0
- Culture
- August 7, 2020
In the 1970s hit show, “All In The Family”, Carroll O’Connor played Archie Bunker, a blue-collar worker and family man. Archie’s liberal daughter Gloria and her husband Mike often mocked Archie for his conservative views. Mike and Gloria were young, bright, cool, and always in the liberal camp; Archie was stodgy, opposed change, and was
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Study: Majority of Blacks Support Current or Increased Police Presence 0
- Politics
- August 7, 2020
Eighty-one percent of black Americans said they would prefer if police spend the same amount of time or more time in their neighborhoods, according to a Gallup survey released Wednesday. The survey, which also includes responses from other racial and ethnic groups, indicates that 20 percent of black respondents said they want an increased police
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