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  • This Single Mom Was Told to Raise $10k for a Heart Transplant and People Are Outraged. They Shouldn’t Be

    This Single Mom Was Told to Raise $10k for a Heart Transplant and People Are Outraged. They Shouldn’t Be0

    During the course of my workday I came across the sad story of Hedda Martin, a single mom who was recently informed by a Michigan health clinic that she was not a candidate for a heart transplant “due to needing [a] more secure financial plan for immunosuppressive medication coverage.” The hospital group, Specter Health Richard

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  • The Reason We Love The Nutcracker

    The Reason We Love The Nutcracker0

    Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It’s the most implausible American tradition imaginable, an import from fin-de-siècle Russia straight to your hometown. It’s living proof of the capacity of music and the art of dance to leap the bounds

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  • The ’60s Radicals Won the Culture War

    The ’60s Radicals Won the Culture War0

    Fifty years ago this year, the ’60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology, and politics. The ’60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair, and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to “normal.” But maybe the ’60s, not the

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  • Is Football Becoming Too Nice?

    Is Football Becoming Too Nice?2

    It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, but the football playoffs. The regular season for college football just ended, with conference playoffs next weekend. Then it is bowl season and the NCAA playoffs. The NFL still has several weeks left in its regular season, and then playoff games begin shortly after

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  • How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression

    How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression0

    Today’s young people are depressed. According to an issue of the Johns Hopkins Health Review, “the odds of adolescents suffering from clinical depression grew by 37 percent between 2005 and 2014.” And this depression doesn’t appear to get better with age, either. According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield report from earlier this year,

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  • Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever

    Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever0

    For the U.S. government’s 2018 fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service reports that it successfully boosted its annual revenue by $1 billion over the previous year to $70.7 billion, marking a boom year for its mail and package delivery services. Unfortunately, it also spent about $3.9 billion more to provide those services than it took in during

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  • Micro-Schools Offer Kids A Customized, Hands-On Education

    Micro-Schools Offer Kids A Customized, Hands-On Education0

    There’s a world of difference between telling kids what they are supposed to know and teaching them how to learn. As parents look for more and better education options, the up-and-coming phenomenon of micro-schooling aims to bridge the gap between facts and experience with project-based learning. Although the micro-school movement launched in the U.S. and

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  • Hillary Clinton: Conservatives Were Right on Mass Migration

    Hillary Clinton: Conservatives Were Right on Mass Migration0

    Amidst the hurly-burly of politics these days, it can be hard to notice when your side has won a victory. Yet that’s what’s just happened for conservatives on immigration: they’ve won. Okay, it’s not a final victory, nor even a crushing victory, but, even so, it’s a win. We know this because Hillary Clinton, arguably

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  • Are White Women Dupes?

    Are White Women Dupes?0

    Let me introduce you to three women. Because of the ugly political times in which we live, I have changed their names, but these are women I know well, all of them white. Let’s start with Katie. She and her husband, an attorney, have one natural child and have adopted six others. The children range

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