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  • Why It’s Still Important to Memorize

    Why It’s Still Important to Memorize0

    • September 29, 2015

    There was only one poem I was required to memorize in all my years of schooling – Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.    Like most students today, I had an education in which memorization was not emphasized. My understanding is that it is even worse now. Today, the word “memorization” is

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  • Pew Report: Half of Americans Believe Immigrants are Bad for the Economy

    Pew Report: Half of Americans Believe Immigrants are Bad for the Economy0

    • September 29, 2015

    Yesterday, Pew Research released a report which showed that 59 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. in the last 50 years. This far exceeds the 32 million immigrants which arrived between 1840 and 1919.      The immigration debate can be quite sensitive for a number of reasons. For one thing, denying entry to a

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  • An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities

    An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities0

    Have you ever seen a “hen-pecked” chicken? It’s not pretty. Here’s a picture: (Source: cluck-cluck-here.blogspot.com) It turns out that chickens are actually quite cruel to each other. There is a “pecking order” and you don’t want to be the chicken on the bottom of that order. The farmer my family visited over the weekend pointed

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  • London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”

    London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”0

    • September 29, 2015

    Did you ever have a parent or grandparent who regaled you with stories of life before television? In an era where almost everyone carries a tiny screened device in their pockets, such a life seems impossible to replicate, but one school in London has accepted the challenge. As The Guardian reports, the London Acorn School

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  • One Thing You Should Know about Vladimir Putin

    One Thing You Should Know about Vladimir Putin0

    • September 29, 2015

    In a post last Friday, I pointed to a Harvard professor’s belief that the U.S. and China could be at war with each other in the next decade. The two most popular comments on the post thread brought up the eventual possibility of a conflict with Russia, as well. In light of that possibility, I

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  • Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable

    Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable0

    • September 29, 2015

    Occasionally, you’ll see gun-ownership advocates mocked for believing that the Founders both feared a standing army and believed that an armed citizenry would be a deterrent against a military takeover of the country by its own government. Why it seems absurd that the Founders would hold such views is beyond me. The Founders had just

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