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  • The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People

    The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People0

    Room 241, a blog maintained by Portland’s Concordia University, reports these dismaying statistics regarding the current state of the Three Rs – reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic – in America. More than 30 million American adults cannot read, write, or do math above a third-grade level. Seventy-five percent of American prison inmates either never graduated from high school

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  • Healthy and Unhealthy Responses to ‘Mom Guilt’

    Healthy and Unhealthy Responses to ‘Mom Guilt’0

    If you’re a mother, odds are you struggle with “mom guilt.” Even Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has admitted to feeling it at times. During a recent interview with the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, she described mom guilt as a “constant challenge.” When I get together with fellow mothers, we often discuss this issue. One regular response

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  • Coronavirus Mass Hysteria

    Coronavirus Mass Hysteria0

    The mainstream media and many politicians are attempting to create in you and in the general population an irrational fear over the latest strain of the coronavirus, COVID-19, also known as the Wuhan Virus. You cannot turn on the radio or television news without hearing dire forecasts about this virus from China that is going

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  • Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization

    Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization0

    “People who live in the post-totalitarian system,” wrote Vaclav Havel in The Power of the Powerless, “know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible

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  • Where Are the Children?

    Where Are the Children?0

    Suppose you asked a group of university students “What is the greatest problem facing the world today? Many might suggest climate change. Given our present battle with coronavirus, some might cite pandemics. Others would surely bring up overpopulation. Few, if any, would mention plummeting birth rates in developed countries. Nations as diverse as Poland, Japan,

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  • Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back

    Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back0

    In my (much) younger days, I did some boxing. Bill Bianco, an Italian-American living in Boonville, North Carolina, who had boxed as a pro for a little while, gave me my first lessons in the art of pugilism when I was in elementary school. Later, for a year – prior to an honorable discharge in

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