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One Thing You Should Know about Vladimir Putin 0
- September 29, 2015
In a post last Friday, I pointed to a Harvard professor’s belief that the U.S. and China could be at war with each other in the next decade. The two most popular comments on the post thread brought up the eventual possibility of a conflict with Russia, as well. In light of that possibility, I
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Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable 0
- September 29, 2015
Occasionally, you’ll see gun-ownership advocates mocked for believing that the Founders both feared a standing army and believed that an armed citizenry would be a deterrent against a military takeover of the country by its own government. Why it seems absurd that the Founders would hold such views is beyond me. The Founders had just
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Is Freedom of Religion Being Eclipsed in America?0
- Politics
- September 28, 2015
Over the weekend, President Obama made some revealing comments about the freedom of religion. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, President Obama said: “We affirm that we cherish our religious freedom and are profoundly respectful of religious traditions, but we also have to say clearly that our religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to
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Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?0
- Education
- September 28, 2015
The summary of an article in this September’s edition of Boston Magazine reads: “More and more of Boston’s smartest families are opting out of the education system to homeschool their children. Is this the new model for creating elite kids?” The perception used to be that homeschooling was the realm of families primarily motivated by
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Beware Those Who Try to Create Utopias 0
- Politics
- September 28, 2015
There is a persistent temptation among human beings to seek after utopias. In our present world, we can see it in the world government ambitions of some political leaders, or the technocratic ambitions of reformers of the education system, or even certain parents who isolate their children from society in the hopes of preserving their
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New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too 0
- Family
- September 28, 2015
Kids think bedtime stories are just for babies, right? Wrong. According to a recent survey conducted by Scholastic in Great Britain, nearly 40% of children ages 6-8 and 30% of children ages 9-11 regretted the fact that their parents stopped reading aloud to them. In the U.S., those numbers are even greater, as shown by
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