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MLK’s ‘Dream’ Speech Is Coming True, His Niece Says 0
- Education
- August 28, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece says her uncle’s vision in his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech is being brought to fruition today. “Are we living in a perfect society today? No, but the dream is being realized 55 years later,” pro-life activist Alveda King told The Daily Signal in an interview Monday ahead of
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Why Are Americans Such Lousy Writers?0
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
Ours is the age of communication. We can send an email to France in a couple of seconds, tweet out opinions as fast and furiously as President Trump, and place an order online for everything from groceries to books. Yet many Americans are terrible writers. In an article in the Washington Post, “Why Americans Can’t
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Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners 4
- Culture
- August 28, 2018
Everyone expects the first week of school to contain some hiccups. Even though we all know that our children are perfect angels and would never give their teachers trouble, the transition to schedules and classmates can also contain behavior problems that mom and dad will eventually hear about. What most parents don’t expect to hear,
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7 Things I’d Do if I Wanted to Keep Poor People Poor 0
- Culture
- August 27, 2018
If I wanted to keep poor people poor, there are several government policies I would favor. Let’s count them down. 1: An Expanding Welfare State For starters, I would advocate for a robust and ever-expanding welfare state—programs like Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc. I would recognize that an effective recipe for keeping poor people
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Christopher Robin and the Value of Doing Nothing 0
- Culture
- August 27, 2018
“I remember one morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the task of doing nothing in particular.” —G.K. Chesterton, “A Piece of Chalk” Watching the new Disney movie Christopher Robin, I was amazed by its timeliness—and not just in the sense that it’s idyllic summer entertainment.
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Menopause Cafe: The Latest Trend in Workplace Equality 0
- Culture
- August 27, 2018
According to Dr Andrea Davies, of the University of Leicester’s School of Business, “male academics should say the word ‘menopause’ at least three times a day in solidarity with their female colleagues” to enable them to discuss it “without embarrassment”. To this end she has “organised the monthly Leicester Menopause Cafe, where male and female
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