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  • We’re All on This Train Together

    We’re All on This Train Together0

    “All aboard!”            North Carolina writer Anna Raglan was delighted to find that Amtrak’s conductors still called out these words to passengers before departing the station. In her new travelogue The Train From Greenville, Raglan, a kind and wise friend of mine, describes a journey she made by rail from Greenville,

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  • A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness

    A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness0

    We’ve gone through the craziest two years I’ve ever seen. In no particular order, we’ve suffered from lockdowns and masks thanks to a virus and an overbearing government. The last presidential election brought chaos and accusations of fraud. We’ve had riots in cities, urban crime has skyrocketed, there were attempts to “defund the police,” and

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  • Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity

    Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity0

    While out on an evening walk in a local park, I heard a fellow walker coming down the path behind me, talking on his phone. His tone was even-keeled and calm … but it seemed like every fifth word was an expletive, uttered in the same calm manner. I cite this incident not because it’s

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  • How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas

    How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas0

    While conservative media have spent the last few holiday seasons bemoaning the “War on Christmas,” one television network is actually doing something about it. Using the cultural weapons of heartwarming settings, wholesome plotlines, and endearing characters, the Hallmark Channel has spent the last decade vanquishing the enemies of Christmas, who now lie prostrate on the

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  • George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: What a Different Era

    George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: What a Different Era0

    (This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on November 22, 2017.) Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of

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  • ‘We Gather Together’ in a Time of Oppression

    ‘We Gather Together’ in a Time of Oppression0

    I sat down at the piano the other night to get my fingers warmed up for a gathering at which I was supposed to play. Knowing that Thanksgiving was fast approaching, I flipped through a hymnal, searching for a few season-appropriate songs, and alighted on “We Gather Together.” As I played and sang, the words

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