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Friday Comic: Vive la Différence 0
- Entertainment
- August 18, 2023
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A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization 4
- Education
- August 17, 2023
Memorization and recitation became part of my life through a club I was part of in middle and high school. With the club, I had the opportunity to recite patriotic speeches and poems along with chapters from the Bible in front of an audience of veterans, law enforcement officers, and first responders just about every
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Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It 1
- Culture, Philosophy, Politics
- August 17, 2023
Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is “liberalism”? Its meaning shifts depending on whether one is speaking of economics or politics or ethics. Edmund Fawcett’s excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, surveys scores of
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Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer 9
- Culture
- August 16, 2023
Upon learning that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was knocked out of the Women’s World Cup after a 5-4 loss to Sweden, I was not very sympathetic toward the team. It was particularly fitting that Megan Rapinoe, the team’s sour-faced forward and chief political activist, missed an important goal kick near the end of
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Stupefying the Privileged 3
- Education
- August 16, 2023
A recent discussion with a friend of mine turned to COVID and its effects on her children, particularly in the ways the schools responded to the situation. COVID, she explained, really escalated the use of screens in school. Before COVID, politicians and others could commonly be heard extolling the need for every child to have
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DeSantis Suspends Second Soft-on-Crime State Attorney 1
- Politics
- August 15, 2023
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has used his executive power to spectacularly suspend a second state attorney in just over a year. Until last Wednesday, Monique Worrell oversaw Florida’s 9th judicial circuit, covering Orange and Osceola counties, which include the city of Orlando. But not any longer. “I am today announcing the suspension of state attorney
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