
Dear Governor Northam: I hope this letter of objection finds you well in the middle of this lockdown you have declared here in Virginia. As you must be aware, many of your fellow citizens are suffering from business closures and stay-at-home orders. Some people I know here in Front Royal – the baristas and cooks
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A friend of mine recently relayed a conversation she had with a mutual friend of ours. This mutual friend grew up in China but emigrated to the United States to pursue higher education, and is now happily married, raising a family of her own, and living the American dream. When asked about the coronavirus, its
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As a homeschooling father, I am no stranger to explaining our family’s choice to home educate our children: “Yes, they have plenty of socialization with other children.” “Yes, we teach all the subjects.” “No, you can simply buy the curriculum and it tells you what to do.” By now I have the answers memorized. You
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Right from the get-go, I have to admit that Planet of the Humans, a documentary about the environmental movement produced by Michael Moore, is unfair, very unfair. And unkind, too, very unkind, to Al Gore. Alas. But as the Sierra Club might have said, you can’t produce clean, green biomass energy without levelling forests. Planet of
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Each year, nearly three million high school seniors graduate and then go straight on to college. I suspect many of them are just as clueless as I was when I graduated high school. Most just go to college because that is what they have been told to do. This coronavirus has turned all that on
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I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week.
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