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NPR… What Do Asthma, Heart Disease And Cancer Have In Common? Maybe Childhood Trauma,
Cory Turner - "Trauma" is a heavy and haunting word. For many
Americans, it conjures images of troops returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan. The emotional toll from those wars made headlines and
forced a healthcare reckoning at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, would like to see a similar...
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Why We Don’t Need Libel and Blackmail Laws,
Walter E. Williams
January 24, 2018 - President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a
strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says
something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will
have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding
to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside
the...
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My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the
Bible, Dennis Prager
January 09, 2018 - I won’t make any assumptions about how many readers
noticed I took a three-month break from column writing. Nevertheless, I
want to explain why. I needed the time to finish the first volume of
the biggest project of my life as a writer, a commentary on the first
five books of the Bible, or what are called the Torah in Hebrew. The...
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The Daily Signal… Why We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy,
Walter E. Williams
January 17, 2018 - Hillary Clinton blamed the Electoral College for her
stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential election in her latest
memoirs, “What Happened.” Some have claimed that the Electoral College
is one of the most dangerous institutions in American politics. Why?
They say the Electoral College system, as opposed to a simple...
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The Daily Signal… Martin Luther King on the Limits of Civil
Disobedience, Peter C. Myers
January 14, 2018 -- More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled
with remembrances of Martin Luther King Jr. because in it falls the
50th anniversary of King’s assassination. It will also be a year filled
with remembrances of 1968 itself as the culminating year of the 1960s,
a year in which the country seemed divided even to the breaking point.
In many such...
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The Daily Signal... You’re Never Ready to Get Married. But That
Shouldn’t Stop You.
Dennis Prager - January 02, 2018 - In every age, people say and believe
things that aren’t true but somehow become accepted as “conventional
wisdom.” The statement “I’m not ready to get married” is a current
example. Said by more and more Americans between the ages of 21 and 40
(and some who are older than that), it usually qualifies as both
meaningless...
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The Daily Signal… George Washington’s Sterling Character Set
an Example for the Ages,
Richard Lim - December 23, 2017 - For most Americans, the 23rd of
December has no particular significance. But an extraordinary event
happened on that day in 1783 in Annapolis, Maryland, that stunned the
world. Gen. George Washington stood before the Continental Congress in
Maryland’s State House and resigned his commission as the
commander-in-chief of...
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The Daily Signal… What We Can Learn From Reagan About
Celebrating Christmas,
Lee Edwards - December 22, 2015 - San Bernardino. Boston Marathon
bombing. Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Paris Bataclan Theater
massacres. Jihad, Islamic State. Caliphate. Syria, Iraq, Libya. Freddie
Gray. Ferguson and Michael Brown. Assisted suicide. Whatever happened
to peace on earth and good will to men? In times like these when I am
thinking how...
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Inside Higher Education… Narrowing the Terms of Tenure,
By Colleen Flaherty
December 13, 2017 - University of Arkansas professors want to stall a
vote on system policy changes they say would upend the definition of
tenure. Many fear the system is trying to focus on the vague concept of
collegiality. It’s hard to build faculty consensus on anything, but
professors across Arkansas and colleagues elsewhere are speaking out
against proposed...
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Even the Best Laws Cannot Save Our Society,
Walter E. Williams
December 13, 2017 - I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter
will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because
I’m from prehistoric times. As such, it points to one of the
unavoidable problems of youth—namely, the temptation to think that
today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at a few of
the differences between...
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Findlay Courier… Tots unwrap true meaning of Christmas,
By Jeannie Wiley Wolf
Sat. Dec 9th, 2017 - CAREY — The tradition of Christmas School is alive
and well in Carey. This year marked the 44th year for the annual
five-day event meant to teach preschoolers about the true meaning of
Christmas. “I inherited this,” said the Rev. William Schultz, pastor of
Christ Lutheran Church which hosts Christmas School each year. “When...
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NPR… A Tech-Based Tool To Address Campus Sexual
Assault, Anya Kamanetz
December 6, 2017 - Jessica Ladd was sexually assaulted while at Pomona
College, just as one in five college women are. She says she found the
reporting process, "more traumatic than the assault" itself. She felt
"like I didn't have control. A lack of agency. I wasn't believed, and
ended up regretting reporting." Ladd, now 31, put her experience "in a
box...
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The Daily Signal… Celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving,
Jarrett Stepman
November 20, 2017 - For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time
to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some
football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this
holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the
Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly
nauseating affair...
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The Daily Signal… Ohio Lawmakers Working to Stop Colleges’
Censorship, Jonathan Butcher
October 17, 2017 - The storm of censorship on college campuses
continues to swirl around the country. In just the past two weeks,
students in Texas sought to shout down an invited speaker, and Oregon
students silenced their own college president. But on college campuses
and in state legislatures, defenders of free speech are pushing back.
With...
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The Daily Signal… Why Pulling ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ From
the Classroom Hurts Students,
Daniel Davis - October 18, 2017 - This year, as in years past,
eighth-graders in Biloxi, Mississippi, began reading the classic
American novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” And then, partway through and
with little warning, they stopped. Why? Because, according to the
school board vice president, it “makes people uncomfortable.” If you
attended American schools...
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The Daily Signal… The False Ideas Intellectuals Peddle at
College Campuses, Walter E. Williams
October 11, 2017 - As George Orwell said, “some ideas are so stupid
that only intellectuals believe them.” Many stupid ideas originate with
academics on college campuses. If they remained there and didn’t infect
the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment, much in
the way a circus is. Let’s look at a few stupid ideas peddled by
intellectuals...
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The Daily Signal… Many People Would Save Their Dog Over a
Stranger, Dennis Prager
October 10, 2017 - A while ago a human-interest story from South Africa
was reported internationally. As described in The Wall Street Journal:
On Aug. 4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while yachting off the coast of
South Africa, hit a reef, capsizing their boat. As the boat threatened
to sink and they scrambled to get off, Sheryl’s safety line snagged on...
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The Daily Signal… The Truth About Columbus,
Jarrett Stepman
October 06, 2017 - Is this the last time we can celebrate Columbus Day?
A wave of cities have decided to remove the holiday from the calendar
and replace it with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Christopher Columbus,
the Italian explorer credited with discovering America, and his legacy
are under attack figuratively and, increasingly, literally. Several
Columbus...
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Washington Post… Why is Virginia, cradle of America, killing
its U.S. history tests?
By Jay Mathews -- October 1 -- My entire life I have heard complaints
about how little we Americans know about our history. So why is
Virginia killing its annual U.S. history tests, while still requiring
state exams in English, math and science? I always liked Virginia’s
Standards of Learning tests, particularly U.S. History to 1865 in fifth
grade, U.S. History 1865 to Present in middle school...
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NPR Ed… States Plan To Use Student Absences To
Measure Success, Elissa Nadworny
How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture?
Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student
Succeeds Act, or ESSA) states are asked to use five measures of student
success. The first four are related to academics — like annual tests
and graduation rates. The fourth measures proficiency of English
language...
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Springfield News-Sun… Sexting and teens: Ohio looks to set up
diversion program as problem grows;
Sexting bill would require courts to set up juvenile diversion program,
By Laura A. Bischoff -- September 24, 2017 -- Columbus — Sexting is
rampant among teens, putting them at risk for criminal charges, school
expulsion and images of their privates being displayed and shared in
the digital world. The behavior is so common that Montgomery and Clark
counties set up diversion...
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