Archive for the ‘American Values’ Category
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Boycott?
Posted on July 25, 2012
Charles C. Boycott probably would have gladly gone to Chick-Fil-A. Boycott was the British land agent who, representing the interests of an absentee English landlord in County Mayo, Ireland in...
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Are Massacres Inevitable?
Posted on July 25, 2012
The prevailing sentiment seems to be that massacres like what happened in Aurora, Colorado are inevitable. I wonder if that is so. Certainly, evil is an ever-present reality in this...
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How To Not Slip Out of the Middle Class
Posted on July 16, 2012
The New York Times had a fascinating story on its front page yesterday detailing the lives of two middle-class white women, and how one become wealthy in the eyes of...
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Mayberry
Posted on July 5, 2012
There is a reason that the main character in the Andy Griffith Show was named Andy Taylor. The TV series was fiction. Now that Andy Griffith died, his iconic show...
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Convoy: The New Reality Facing America
Posted on June 13, 2012
As we waited to board our flight from Sarasota to Atlanta, a convoy of wheelchairs assembled at the front of the line. In those wheelchairs were 8 octogenerians, connected only...
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