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Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees 3
- History, Politics, Uncategorized
- August 12, 2022
Power kills. Absolute power kills too many to count. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spoke with personal authority on the subject when he famously said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” To write about any one or more massacres for which Stalin was responsible, one must first answer the question, “Which
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Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil 4
- History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 2, 2022
Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the famed political theorist and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). It was February 1963. Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of
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At Teachers Union Convention, Indoctrination Eclipses Education 6
- Education, Politics, Uncategorized
- July 13, 2022
As a teacher, I attended the National Education Association convention last week, and my worst fears were confirmed. Public schools are no longer a safe place for families who hold traditional values or for families who believe gender (as in male/female binary) is biologically determined. It was also evident that the teachers union is a
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Why Progressives Should Be Pro-Life 12
- Culture, Family, Politics, Uncategorized
- July 7, 2022
These days, abortion is perhaps the most sharply polarized issue in America. Pro-lifers almost always identify as politically conservative, while those who are pro-choice, especially those most vehemently in favor of abortion “rights,” almost always identify as politically progressive. But there’s nothing inherent in this political ideology that requires progressives to support abortion. Indeed, given
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Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies 2
- Education, Family, Politics, Uncategorized
- June 23, 2022
For a brief moment last week, President Joe Biden’s administration appeared to be interested in what parents think about K-12 schools. Low student achievement coming out of the pandemic. High rates of depression among youth. School officials hiding information about students’ health from their parents. The administration seemed to be aware of these concerns when it announced the creation of a National
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What Really Happened to Justin Bieber?2
- Culture, Entertainment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized
- June 15, 2022
Everyone with a phone or computer has seen the mega-viral videos and photos of 28-year-old pop star Justin Bieber. “As you can see, this eye is not blinking,” he told his whopping 241 million Instagram followers last weekend. Bieber’s handsome face is drooping and lopsided; he “can’t smile,” his “nostril will not move,” and “there’s
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