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The Gifts of Gratitude 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2018
“Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you, God, for everything.” – Child’s Mealtime Blessing Thanksgiving is a day set aside, as Abraham
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Surviving The Woke Workplace 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2018
A reader sent me the following e-mail, which I have edited a bit to protect her privacy, and the privacy of others mentioned here: I wanted to bring this to your attention. My husband had a conversation with a young friend of ours who is a recent college grad. He has been working at [a
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High School Students Claim Ignorance Should Not Be Used Against Them in Exam Scores 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2018
“My dog ate my homework” has long been the default excuse for students who miss the mark with their school assignments. But high school students in New Zealand appear to have moved beyond this tired excuse, for instead of blaming the dog, they are turning their own ignorance into an excuse for victimhood. According to
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The Tragedy of the European Family 0
- Culture
- November 19, 2018
Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected French president, has no children; German chancellor Angela Merkel has no children. British prime minister, Theresa May has no children; Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children; Holland’s prime minister, Mark Rutte, Sweden’s Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and Scotland’s, first minster Nicola Sturgeon — all have no children. The
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The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals 0
- Economics
- November 19, 2018
The New York Times released a 10-minute video last month entitled “How Capitalism Ruined China’s Health Care System.” The video attempts to blame capitalism for the many problems in China’s health care system. “Under Mao Zedong the Communist state provided free health care for all,” the narrator tells us. “Decades later China adopted a unique brand of capitalism
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One Simple Way to Recognize if Someone is Living a Life of Truth 0
- Culture
- November 19, 2018
Small, seemingly trivial events, can be impactful. Some years ago, we moved our household from one suburban community to another about 15 miles away. Soon after the move, I was rushing out the front door to put an envelope in the hands of the mail carrier. As I introduced myself, the mail carrier smiled and
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor Shares How She Welcomed Brett Kavanaugh After His Confirmation 0
- November 19, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor related one of her first exchanges with Justice Brett Kavanaugh following his bitter confirmation during a wide-ranging interview Saturday with CNN. In welcoming Kavanaugh, Sotomayor recounted a story about Justice Clarence Thomas’ arrival at the Supreme Court in 1991. “It was Justice Thomas who tells me that when he first came to
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Does it Pay to ‘Buy Local’?0
- Culture
- November 19, 2018
When I was a boy in Boonville, North Carolina, population 600 in the early 1960s, my mom used to take us shopping a couple of times a year in nearby Winston-Salem. Once I asked her why we didn’t shop there more often. The stores offered far more variety, and Winston was less than forty-five minutes
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Why the Enlightenment Thinkers Understood the Need for Religion 1
- Culture
- November 16, 2018
In January I resolved to read Will and Ariel Durant’s magnum opus The Story Of Civilization before the end of the year. It is now early November, and I have finished Volume X of this series, Rousseau and Revolution, meaning I should fulfill my self-imposed obligation under deadline. The Durants devoted the last three of
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The Gifts of Gratitude 0