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  • Ignoring the Obvious: Mass Murder, Guns, and Evil

    Ignoring the Obvious: Mass Murder, Guns, and Evil10

    Every time there is a mass murder event, the vultures launch. It’s fascinating in a sickening way. A bunch of people get killed, and within minutes the same crew of anti-gun zealots shows up all over the news and social media, pushing the same tired proposals that we’ve either tried before or logic tells us

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  • Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest

    Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest5

    It’s not much of a secret that I’m a fan of old movies. Friends have teased me that I know the names of actors and actresses from the 1930s and 1940s better than those on the big screen today—and they’re right, I do! There’s a wholesomeness about the old movies that I love, and although

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  • Making the Most of Each Day

    Making the Most of Each Day11

    When I was a very little girl, I loved a book titled Apron Strings and Rowdy. The simple storyline had twin bear cubs emerging in the early spring from their dark cave and into the splendor of sunlight. There was something about the hopefulness, the playfulness, the newness, the adventure that captured my little girl

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  • Truth Dies in Darkness

    Truth Dies in Darkness5

    Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave. A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be

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  • Why Do 40 Female Athletes Support Men in Women’s Sports?

    Why Do 40 Female Athletes Support Men in Women’s Sports?2

    Forty female athletes wrote a letter to the House of Representatives denouncing H.R. 734, otherwise known as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The law, introduced on Feb. 1 by Florida Rep. Greg Steube, would ban transgender individuals—that is, biological males—from participating in women’s sports. The bill’s summary reads: “This bill generally

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  • Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense

    Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense5

    “Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while

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