Blog 3 Columns

The Ideology of Statue Smashing 0
- August 29, 2018
Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without ammunition for his gun—and facing northward—apparently
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Google and Apple Are Recognizing the Façade of the Education System 0
- Economics
- August 29, 2018
I was at a wedding several weeks ago when I ran into a young man I hadn’t seen for a while. Naturally, I asked what he was up to. Was he finished with high school? College? To my surprise, he stated that he was working for Apple as a software developer. “Wow, that’s great!” I
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Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.0
- Politics
- August 29, 2018
This past weekend, a competitor at a video game competition in Jacksonville, Florida, allegedly opened fire on fellow gamers, killing two and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms. And once
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Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis: PA AG Says He Has Evidence That Vatican Knew 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Can you imagine a worse job than being in law enforcement with the duty of investigating cases of child sex abuse? How that must leave a person permanently scarred in soul and mind – and how that person must burn with a desire for justice. A few weeks ago, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
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Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from
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Why Are Americans Such Lousy Writers?0
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
Ours is the age of communication. We can send an email to France in a couple of seconds, tweet out opinions as fast and furiously as President Trump, and place an order online for everything from groceries to books. Yet many Americans are terrible writers. In an article in the Washington Post, “Why Americans Can’t
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Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners 4
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
Everyone expects the first week of school to contain some hiccups. Even though we all know that our children are perfect angels and would never give their teachers trouble, the transition to schedules and classmates can also contain behavior problems that mom and dad will eventually hear about. What most parents don’t expect to hear,
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Stop Criminalizing Parenthood 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
When I was young, I had a paper route. It was actually my big brother’s but he subcontracted to me part of the route closest to our house and gave me the appropriate portion of his earnings. I had about three streets I was responsible for and diligently delivered our regional newspaper to neighbors each
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Pedophilia & the Pope: Did He Cover It Up?0
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
It is no light matter to allege or outright accuse any man, let alone the Pope, of covering up pedophilia. What is before you is an account of the outbreak of the current sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the events that have led to questions about what Pope Francis knew and when
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The Ideology of Statue Smashing 0