Culture

Let’s Start Walking Like Americans Again 2
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- February 20, 2025
Forty years ago, I read an account of some Americans helping several Germans escape East Berlin by passing them off as U.S. citizens. They provided passports and other papers to the Germans, and outfitted them with Western-style clothing. As the date for their escape loomed, one of the Germans said to their handlers, “Now, you
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Is Elon Musk Having Too Many Babies?1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- February 18, 2025
The internet exploded this weekend over the “scandal” that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man with a net worth of approximately $400 billion, has had yet another child, his 13th, with yet another woman, the fourth to bear his children. His social media platform X titled the trending controversy, “Conservatives Clash Over Celebration of Out-of-Wedlock
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The Women Taking an Alternative Path in the Nationwide Library Fights 2
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- February 17, 2025
Let’s begin, as so many good things begin, with the dream. For years, conservative political activist, wife, and mother Connie Marshner of Front Royal, Va., dreamed of opening a private library, one aimed particularly at children. “I had collected books forever, especially children’s books, because I believe so strongly in beauty and beautiful books,” Marshner
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 5
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- February 14, 2025
Is there an epidemic of loneliness in the United States? Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thought so. In 2023, he declared a national epidemic of loneliness and isolation, stating in June 2024, “The overall mortality impact of loneliness and isolation are on par with smoking daily, and they’re even greater than the mortality impact we
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And the Key to a Happy Marriage Is…3
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- February 13, 2025
If you’re like me, the older you get, the more you see friends divorce … friends that seemed like the perfect couple … friends that you didn’t think were ever in danger of splitting. Sadly, the reason given for these divorces all too often runs along the lines of a lack of happiness – a
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Make Sports Apolitical Again 2
- Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
- February 11, 2025
The Philadelphia Eagles trounced the Kansas City Chiefs last weekend at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, and as always with the annual event, the national conversation was as much about the advertisements as the game. I was pleasantly surprised, amid our current political rancor, to note some messaging promoting patriotism, unity and civility, appeals
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