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As we near the return to pre-pandemic “normal,” the full extent of the damage is emerging. Amidst the wreckage, America’s bruised and battered teachers…
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“The beatings will continue until morale improves” is a rather familiar quip of unknown origin. Two recent news stories remind of just how apt the…
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As we age, there is more in the past and less in the future. This simple realization is more present at Christmastime, when memories accumulate around…
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The same fine folks who brought us the Critical Race Theory (CRT) scare tactic to win the Virginia gubernatorial election are now poised to bring our…
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The wholesale sell-out of higher education
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18 year-old Payton Gendron, armed with an assault rifle and rabid with racial hatred, killed 10 innocent souls in a Buffalo, NY grocery store. We all…
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The myth of "pandemic slide"
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The FIFA World Cup (soccer) begins on November 20th. My wife and I attended a quite different match this week at the Boulder, CO JCC. To protect privacy…
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In a recent New York Times column, conservative pundit Bret Stephens argued strenuously that divisiveness was ruining our great nation. He was…
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Last week my grandchildren, Maddie and Jack, were in an out-of school production of Cinderella. My wife, Maddie’s and Jack’s parents, and I were…
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“The Moral Majority is Neither” This succinct summary of Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority movement was the message on one of the only bumper stickers…
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Parents should decide what their kids learn in school, shouldn’t they? It takes little insight to recognize the explicit and implicit dangers of that…
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