Culture

Has the Media Been Covering Up President Biden’s Cognitive Decline?0
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- July 11, 2024
For the last 17 months of his two-term presidency, following a severe stroke, President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was barely functional. Behind the scenes, Wilson’s wife Edith stepped in to effectively serve as de facto commander-in-chief. She even earned herself the title “Secret President” and “first woman to run the government,” according to her official White
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Is It Time to Stop Being Ironic?2
- Culture, Featured
- July 10, 2024
Amid ongoing political tension and the ubiquity of social media platforms, has sincerity has been overtaken by irony and cynicism? No matter where you turn—film, social media, or news outlets—everything seems to have taken on a tone of cynical irony. What was once an attitude used by mid-20th-century postmodernists to critique culture has now become a
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This Independence Day, Let’s Support the Brave Who Keep Us Free 1
- Culture, Featured
- July 3, 2024
It’s a sad fact that some Americans who give everything for their country receive little in return. There are at least 41,000 homeless veterans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and over a million housing insecure veterans, according to Dana Spain, the founder and president of Veterans Villages, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
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An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy 0
- Featured, Culture, Economics
- July 1, 2024
Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. George Orwell wrote those words nearly 80 years ago. Today, Americans are witnessing exactly what Orwell described. Many have the
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My Favorite Patriotic Recipes for Independence Day 5
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- June 28, 2024
Independence Day is just around the corner! I’m planning to celebrate with a feast. What better things to cook than classic American recipes? Much of what we think of as “American food” actually comes from Western Europe where the majority of immigration to our country originated. Most of the immigrants were poor, simple, and hardy,
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Four Reasons Why People Are Choosing Not to Have Children 0
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 26, 2024
North Carolina State University Professor (Emeritus) Mike Walden is known for explaining complex issues in ways understandable to the general reader. That is unusual among scholars. Three “economic thrillers” written by Professor Walden and his wife M.E. Whitman Walden, Micro Mayhem (2006), Macro Mayhem (2006) and Fiscal Fiasco (2014), show how they do it. Professor Walden just posted a short, down-to-earth
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