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  • Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s ‘No Such Thing’ as a Non-Essential Worker

    Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s ‘No Such Thing’ as a Non-Essential Worker0

    Few people in history have seen more jobs up close than Mike Rowe, the longtime host of the Discovery Channel’s hit TV show Dirty Jobs. Now the blue-collar icon has a message for those who say “non-essential” employees have no business working during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent TV appearance with Dana Perino on

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  • Equality Prepared Us for Coronavirus Restrictions

    Equality Prepared Us for Coronavirus Restrictions0

    I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week. 

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  • Michael Moore Knocks the Halo Off the Environmental Movement

    Michael Moore Knocks the Halo Off the Environmental Movement0

    Right from the get-go, I have to admit that Planet of the Humans, a documentary about the environmental movement produced by Michael Moore, is unfair, very unfair. And unkind, too, very unkind, to Al Gore. Alas. But as the Sierra Club might have said, you can’t produce clean, green biomass energy without levelling forests. Planet of

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  • Let’s Go Backwards in Education

    Let’s Go Backwards in Education0

    Maybe part of the “New Normal” should be the “Old Normal.” In the last two weeks, lost among the coronavirus ruckus, some organizations have issued reports revealing the poor scores of our elementary and middle school students on standardized tests. From the Pioneer Institute comes a study showing the failures of Common Core in basic subjects like

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  • Forget School. Just Read.

    Forget School. Just Read.0

    The truth is coming to light. Yesterday I overheard a public school teacher and mother of several children express an honest opinion about education during the coronavirus. Schoolwork varies by teacher and school district, she noted, with some doing almost nothing at all, while others send out huge packets of worksheets. About the latter she

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  • Frank Herbert Was Right: Fear Is the Mind-Killer

    Frank Herbert Was Right: Fear Is the Mind-Killer0

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. Frank Herbert, noted writer of science fiction, was being scientifically factual when he included this line in his novel Dune. Fear is, in fact, the mind-killer. Don’t get me wrong, fear serves a purpose. There are times when fear

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