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  • Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine

    Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine0

    In a recent conversation with an internist, the good doctor asked me whether I’d gotten a COVID-19 vaccine. When I told him ‘No,” he then asked if I intended to get it at all. “Not unless someone forces it on me,” I said. I then asked him the same question. “I got the first injection,

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  • Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem

    Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem1

    Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivable—a return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Today’s crime is deceptively

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  • Explaining Minnesota’s Radical Political Nature

    Explaining Minnesota’s Radical Political Nature0

    As recent events have caused the eyes of the nation and the world to focus on Minnesota, a question I’ve wondered about has resurfaced: Why is Minnesota so politically radical? That Minnesota’s politics are radical is seen in a simple survey of the state’s prominent politicians. Both of Minnesota’s two U.S. Senators, Amy Klobuchar and

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  • Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography

    Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography0

    Though I’ve practiced several vices in my time, pornography was not one of them. I grew up in a town and a time when I didn’t even know the meaning of that word. At the private school I attended in seventh and eighth grade, 200 miles from home, one kid used to smuggle Playboy magazines into the

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  • It’s Time to ‘Decolonize’ Government Schools

    It’s Time to ‘Decolonize’ Government Schools0

    After nearly 100 days in office, President Joe Biden made his first speech to Congress last week, introducing a new program entitled the American Families Plan. For the unsuspecting, Biden’s plan may seem kind and caring. Education, affordable childcare, paid medical leave, and financial benefits all appear to help young couples in their quest to

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  • Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin

    Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin0

    Recently I spent several days visiting my sister and her husband in their home in Western North Carolina. Both are retired, love gardening and landscaping, and as a result, have spent long and arduous hours making a mini paradise of their property. Here are flower beds, plots for growing tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables—this year

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