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Teaching Children to Self-Entertain2
- Education, Entertainment, Family
- October 25, 2023
Teaching children to self-entertain is key to traditional parenting. While I totally understand the desire to occasionally use technology and screens as “babysitters,” shouldn’t parents aim to instill more sustainable and healthier alternatives? In comes teaching children to self-entertain! Essentially, self-entertainment means kids keeping themselves appropriately occupied while a parent’s attention is elsewhere. As much
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Gun Control Advocates Ignore What the Founding Fathers Really Thought4
In all my years of existence, the Second Amendment of our Constitution has always been considered controversial. Opponents claim it is the cause of gun violence. Proponents assert that it helps guarantee freedom and safety. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep
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Will New Kids Entertainment App Topple Woke Disney?1
- Culture, Entertainment
- October 24, 2023
For a long time now, conservatives and other traditionally minded people have been on the cultural back foot. We have become astute at critiquing the madness of the modern world but not so adept at offering creative solutions. Fortunately, that is all beginning to change. Consider just the latest example of this welcome trend. Conservative
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Under Pressure: Britney Spears, Ernest Hemingway, and Abortion4
- Culture, Literature
- October 24, 2023
In her memoir The Woman in Me, Britney Spears reveals that when she and Justin Timberlake were a couple 20 years ago, she became pregnant, and he convinced her to have an abortion. “Justin wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” writes Spears. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we
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3 Missteps of the Education System According to Mike Rowe1
- Education
- October 24, 2023
Everybody loves Mike Rowe. His matter-of-fact sense of humor, his humility, and his willingness to get involved in the many work sites featured on his “Dirty Jobs” show make him an endearing figure. But Rowe is also very intelligent. He has his finger on the pulse and problems of America in a way that many
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Good and Evil Never Went Away. But We Did.2
- International, Culture
- October 23, 2023
The cold-blooded murder of hundreds of Israelis—men, women, children, and babies—by Hamas terrorists brought a universal outcry of shock and horror from the vast majority of Americans, whatever their politics. There were exceptions, of course. Across the country were scattered rallies for Palestine. At Harvard University, the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) and 30 other student
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Why Did Elite Students Cheer the Atrocities of Hamas?3
- Culture, Education, International
- October 23, 2023
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror
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Voters Down Under Reject Woke Agenda3
- Politics, International
- October 20, 2023
Across the Western world, there is a brooding sense of inevitability about the triumph of wokeness. But what if that inevitability is overstated? Australia and New Zealand each held important electoral contests over the weekend, with voters in both nations rejecting woke ideas and woke politicians in spectacular fashion. First, New Zealand. The Land of
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Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed?1
- Education
- October 20, 2023
Online learning has revolutionized higher education, but a recent move by the federal Department of Education is threatening to tear down systems that are helping millions of students learn. An extremely wide diversity of students choose to take online courses or to get entire online degrees. Colleges that offer them need to be nimble as the
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