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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Many teachers believe that their job is a calling because they shape lives by encouraging students to enjoy learning, to discover and develop their individual talents, and to become productive members of our republic.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of "unapproved" thoughts like an education controlled by parents instead of the state.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
As lawmakers on the federal and state level scramble to use the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a justification for the adoption of sweeping new gun control measures, one group, AbleChild, is asking a critical, and overlooked, question: Were psychiatric drugs a causative factor for the Sandy Hook shooter and for dozens of other school shootings?
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Being prepared for any kind of a disaster is important. What about a survival situation with your health? Most people know that chest pain or angina and numbness in the left arm are the classic signs of a heart attack. But in reality most of the warning signs are much more subtle than that, especially in women.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
A 76-year-old Auburn, Massachusetts man Richard Ahlstrand had spotted a black bear in his backyard last Thursday around his bird feeders. On Friday, he went to fill up his bird feeders, and as a precaution, he took his shotgun.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers' taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself, and with a government that continues to extract more wealth from every taxpaying American every year, is it any wonder that April 15th is a day of dread in America? Social Security taxes and income taxes have dogged us all since their institution during the last century, and few politicians have been willing to address these ploys for what they are: theft.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
All survival scenarios strike when people least expect them. Whether on a cruise vacation or taking a day hike through a scenic national park, you never know when a few basic survival tools can help get you through a bad situation.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Machiavellian Plot to ignore and subvert the Rights of potentially millions of NY State residents developed another layer late Sunday.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Widely held as the Holy Grail of weapons design, the Electromagnetic Rail Gun has been in development for more than a century. Now, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of the U.S. Navy, it will soon be part of our arsenal.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
As of today, a major showdown continues to unfold in the battle between statist ideologues vs. reality constitutionalists.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
[Drones are a] game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb-opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a generation ago."-Peter Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
For most of human history the family was the basic social unit of the species. Family was a way of passing down genes, beliefs and wealth. It was a retirement plan that you paid into by keeping your children alive long enough for them to grow up and support you. It allowed the individual to pass on his ideas to people who would care about them because they were part of their heritage.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
What happens when the government goes bankrupt? This question is one that sounds like a hypothetical exercise in a law school classroom from just a few years ago, where it might have been met with some derision.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan. The bi-partisan immigration reform proposal launched last week in the US Senate will be no different.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
A recent video of a father being interviewed prompted me to write on the matter of the father's role in his daughters getting married. In the video, the father was questioned due to his list of things necessary for his daughter to find an acceptable marriage partner. During this interview, his daughter was included. It was a good exchange in all regards
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Advocacy Group Gives Guns for the Poor, Government Spends More Per Household than Median Household Income, "Rain Tax" to Soak Maryland Taxpayers, and more...
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Recently I got together with a friend I hadn't seen in years (I'll call her Mary). It was very pleasant, catching up on each others' lives. Among other things, I told Mary about our teenage daughter's plans to attend nanny school next year, once she graduates from our homeschool. The tuition for the school is very reasonable, I told Mary, and as a credential nanny school graduate, our daughter's job prospects would be excellent.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Granted, I have only one small town to draw from, but something tells me it is the same everywhere all across America, especially in small towns that still have a sense of community.
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