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  • How Bad Is the Dating Scene in American Churches?

    How Bad Is the Dating Scene in American Churches?1

    “Where are the good Christian men?” That question is being asked by single Christian women across America. Discussions of this issue inevitably elicit a strong response. Everyone has their own theory about why it seems to be so hard for a single Christian girl to find a good husband. But these theories are usually based

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  • Delusion, Doublespeak, and Duplicity: Why Language Matters

    Delusion, Doublespeak, and Duplicity: Why Language Matters0

    Language matters. Let’s start with some quotes from one of the masters of the English language: George Orwell. From his Politics and the English Language: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” And again: “But if thought corrupts language, language

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  • California’s Ethnic Indoctrination Would Dump the Melting Pot

    California’s Ethnic Indoctrination Would Dump the Melting Pot0

    California’s state legislature is on the verge of mandating an “ethnic studies” course for students to graduate from high school. Why not? Today in California, K-12 public school student enrollment is only 23 percent “White, not Hispanic.” Based on current immigration and fertility statistics, California’s demographics will eventually become America’s demographics. If America were the melting pot it used

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  • Australian Doctors to Investigate Transgender Treatments for Kids

    Australian Doctors to Investigate Transgender Treatments for Kids0

    It’s about time. A national inquiry into the safety and ethics of transgender medicine in Australia will be conducted by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians with the backing of Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt. At the moment there are no nationally agreed standards, although guidelines issued by Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital gender clinic have been referred

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  • Yes, We Have Ruined Childhood. But There’s Hope for Restoration.

    Yes, We Have Ruined Childhood. But There’s Hope for Restoration.0

    Over the weekend the New York Times published an article entitled, “We Have Ruined Childhood.” Author Kim Brooks states her premise bluntly: “To put it simply, our kids are not O.K.” Many of us would agree. We see it in the young faces around us and we read about it in the rising suicide rates

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  • Sanctuary in the Big Apple: NYPD Ignores Thousands of ICE Detainer Requests

    Sanctuary in the Big Apple: NYPD Ignores Thousands of ICE Detainer Requests0

    Newly released information shows that the New York Police Department denied thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests over a one-year timespan. The New York Police Department received a total of 2,916 detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement between July 1, 2018, and June 30 of this year, according to data first obtained by the

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  • Open Borders? The EU Has Hundreds of Miles of Walls

    Open Borders? The EU Has Hundreds of Miles of Walls0

    If you voted for Donald Trump on the basis of a three-word, three-syllable chant, it was probably “we will win,” “lock her up,” or “build the wall.” Regarding the latter, proponents of less immigration have reason to be frustrated. Prior to the midterm elections, the Republican-held presidency, Senate, and House barely moved an inch on

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  • Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists

    Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists0

    • August 19, 2019

    Immediately following the conclusion of the First World War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was thrust into a state of economic, political, and social disarray. The infantile German state, which had recently been established in 1871, struggled to maintain its reputation as a global superpower. Kaiser Wilhelm II chose to abdicate

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  • C.S. Lewis on How to Be Yourself

    C.S. Lewis on How to Be Yourself1

    When faced with a challenge, most of us have received advice to “just be yourself.” Those offering advice have good intentions. Yet, we might think, “I’m anxious, frightened, and insecure. I don’t want to be myself.” C.S. Lewis would agree that the self-concept we have created is unreliable. Fortunately, the self we have created is

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