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  • Why ‘Adult Recess’ Is Becoming a Trend

    Why ‘Adult Recess’ Is Becoming a Trend0

    You’ve heard of adulting school. It’s where those who grew up in body, but not necessarily in responsibility, go to learn the ropes of changing tires, cooking, and doing laundry. But there’s a flip side to this phenomenon. Apparently, many adults have a craving to be a kid again. Enter “adult recess.” “Adults are reliving

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  • These Hongkongers Are Not ‘a Few Violent Thugs’

    These Hongkongers Are Not ‘a Few Violent Thugs’0

    One major reason why the Hong Kong protests have been so successful at capturing international attention is because they are having a huge impact on the tiny island nation’s thriving economy – whether through 11 weeks of massive street demonstrations, the sit-ins at the main airport, or widespread worker strikes throughout the city.  What this shows,

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  • Retooling Pronouns: Let’s Bring Back the Royal ‘We’

    Retooling Pronouns: Let’s Bring Back the Royal ‘We’0

    Queen Victoria, so the story goes, sometimes resorted to the royal “we.” “We are not amused,” she might remark – one assumes with a sniff – at some slightly off-color story or inopportune remark. But whom did the queen intend by “we?” The spirit of Prince Albert? Other members of the court? The entire British

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  • Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent

    Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent0

    Standing in the breeze on a warm spring day at the end of another school year, I listen as a pre-Kindergarten child receives a prize at the elementary school’s yearly awards ceremony. Inwardly, I cringe as I hear “ . . . and she wants to be a YouTuber when she grows up.” My attention

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  • Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat

    Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat0

    Whether conjured up by something I ate before bedtime, or by the cheesy horror flick I watched a few nights before, or by something else, I just don’t know – but I tossed and turned through one of the most vivid dreams last weekend that I’ve ever experienced. The Dream I was in a classroom

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  • What the Tiny House Movement and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Have in Common

    What the Tiny House Movement and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Have in Common1

    • August 20, 2019

    When Thomas Jefferson originally moved into the South Pavilion of his Monticello estate in 1770, it was little more than an incomplete two-bedroom brick building and a cleared mountaintop. Over the course of the next 38 years, the author of the Declaration of Independence would personally design and oversee the construction of his “essay in

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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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