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  • Student Disrespect Takes Down Another Teacher

    Student Disrespect Takes Down Another Teacher0

    In case one needed further evidence that American schools are in chaos, the video below will put any doubts to rest. The clip, taken at Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis shows two female students in a tussle with an older male teacher. According to local news channel KSTP, the teacher got the raw end

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  • Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World

    Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World0

    All kids have a sometimes-fluid relationship with the truth. I have often wished that I had the skills of an FBI profiler, especially when faced with the smiling cherubs in front of me who certainly look like they have been up to something, even as they insist they have not. Kids can lie like an

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  • People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber

    People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber0

    We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait”. Those who

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  • Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices

    Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices0

    Last month, National Geographic declared, with the help of an exploitive picture of a pink-clad transgender child, that America is in the midst of a gender revolution. Everything, it seems, is now being looked at through the lens of gender, including our choices about what to eat. According to a recent article in the Washington

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  • The News Media Needs to Keep You Angry

    The News Media Needs to Keep You Angry0

    I work for a nonprofit whose activities largely center around digital media. But lately, I wish I could just get away from it all. There’s way too much anger right now in that sphere, and much of it is being driven by news media. The mainstream news media would have you believe that they are

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  • Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch

    Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch0

    Neal Kathal, an acting solicitor general in Barack Obama’s administration and a law professor at Georgetown, says that liberals should support Neil M. Gorsuch, whom Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court Tuesday evening. Via the New York Times: I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last

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  • Hatred of Trump Reveals the Hatred Within

    Hatred of Trump Reveals the Hatred Within0

    “THANK YOU to our patrons. We look forward to a GREAT 2017” read the chalked sidewalk sign outside a small New England natural foods store near my home. Do you see a hidden message in this sign? Some thought the word “GREAT” was a code word of support for Trump and began to boycott this

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  • Euthanasia Could Save Canada Millions in Healthcare Costs

    Euthanasia Could Save Canada Millions in Healthcare Costs0

      Perhaps it’s all that New World fresh air and pioneering spirit, but Canada is taking to its new euthanasia legislation like a duck to water. It only became legal in June and already about 800 people have received a lethal injection at the hands of a doctor. Where it is beating the Old World

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  • Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union is Going Viral

    Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union is Going Viral0

    A friend shared a video on Facebook a few days ago that featured Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union Address. My eyes popped when I saw that it had been viewed nearly 100 million times (according to Facebook), and then it occurred to me that a different friend had emailed me the same clip

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