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In the movie “Independence Day,” with extraterrestrials attempting to annihilate the human race, U.S. President Thomas J. Whitmore addresses a ragtag band of pilots, the last hope of repelling the invasion, saying: In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial
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A news blurb on back-to-school sales gave me a tough dose of reality the other day. Even though most of the nation is currently in the throes of summer heat and humidity, the truth is that kids will be hitting the books before we know it. According to a 2025 EdChoice survey, 80% of those kids
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YouTube/Angel and Wonder ProjectNowadays, if you love going to the movies you must either choose to watch a great film with degenerate themes or a wholesome film that is badly done. Hollywood has the budget for intense action, brilliant acting, and well-written scripts – all very enjoyable if you are willing to ignore the politically-correct
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Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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One constant of my growing-up years was my family’s afternoon “quiet time.” My siblings and I would each be given a separate space in which to play – our room, usually, or a designated spot in the house – and we would amuse ourselves quietly for an hour or two. I loved the days when
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Online dating is the most common way couples meet today. One graph circulating on X shows that over 60% of today’s couples meet online. At 13%, meeting through friends is a distant second. As recently as 2000, online was the least common place for couples to meet, with in-person social settings such as bars, workplaces, churches, and
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