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  • 9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win

    9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win0

    We are still in the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential Elections, a surprise upset result that has resulted in millions of words being written and many surveys, postmortems, predictions and howls of anguish and triumph being unleashed. So here’s one more to that pile. As I mentioned in my last blogpost before the election,

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  • The Dangerous Consequences of ‘Distracted Parenting’

    The Dangerous Consequences of ‘Distracted Parenting’0

    Parental overuse of portable technology, especially smart phones and tablets, can pose a genuine threat to the welfare and development of children. The phenomenon is called “distracted parenting”. It’s far too common and, in some cases, outright dangerous. Distracted parenting is a form of escapism. Parents flee to social media sites, whether Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest

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  • Student Concocts Bogus Story of Attack by ‘Man in Trump Hat’

    Student Concocts Bogus Story of Attack by ‘Man in Trump Hat’0

    Via ABC News: A Muslim woman in Louisiana who told police she was attacked with a metal object and robbed of her headscarf and wallet by two men wearing Donald Trump clothing just hours after Trump was elected president admitted to police today that she made it up, Lafayette police told ABC News. “She made

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  • Our Expectations Are Making Us Miserable

    Our Expectations Are Making Us Miserable0

    HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm offers a hilarious look at an ego on steroids. In each episode Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld), playing himself, tries to make himself more comfortable by making the world go his way. In the process he steps over other people while hoping they still see him as a nice guy. He

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  • Is Trump the New Constantine?

    Is Trump the New Constantine?0

    Christians are unable to speak freely. Religious freedom is under attack. Society is materialistic and immoral. Western civilisation is facing huge threats, from within and without. And apparently the one powerful emerging leader is no saint. You’re thinking America 2016? No. Rome 312. The leader is Constantine, who is vying to become the Roman Emperor.

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  • Is Another Civil War Really Possible?

    Is Another Civil War Really Possible?0

    The past few presidential elections—and the partisan divisions they highlight—have had the effect of raising talk of “America’s next civil war.” There has been chatter in California and Oregon about the possibility of secession.  Just yesterday, a CNN video was posted of a woman protesting Donald Trump’s election with the following rhetoric: “People had to

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  • How the Bible Won a WWI Battle

    How the Bible Won a WWI Battle0

    Several weeks ago, I made the claim that a culturally literate person knows the Bible. Because the Bible was a part of common culture for so many centuries, those who fail to familiarize themselves with its contents cut themselves off from deeper historical and cultural understanding.  I was reminded today just how valuable that knowledge

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  • How Democrats Lost America’s Working Class

    How Democrats Lost America’s Working Class0

    I grew up in a blue-collar town in Wisconsin. Back home we make paper, lots of it. You can tell what we do by the smell of the town, a sulfuric scent that comes and never quite goes (the smell of money, people used to like to say). I grew up in a good Republican

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  • Elites and Big Media Still Can’t Understand Why Trump Won

    Elites and Big Media Still Can’t Understand Why Trump Won0

    In the days following the election, the webpages of the major media showed why they were so far off the mark in assuming, and largely promoting, a Clinton victory. The early morning shock and confusion among the millionaire-media class is striking.  But almost all of the posts and articles illustrate and perpetuate many of the

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