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  • Uncommon Courtesy

    Sara S. Frear

     In the early 1990s I worked for a foster care agency in New York City.  It was my job as a “homefinder” to interview potential foster parents and assess whether they could provide a nurturing home for traumatized children.  The work was an intimate education in human nature, from its most generous to its most…

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  • Mr. Alger, Please Report to Central Planning…

    President Obama, who has no experience in the private sector, believes that running a successful business is a collective enterprise.  The President recently told a group of supporters in Virginia that people who are successful in business didn’t make it on hard work and determination alone.  To the contrary,  their success is owed in part to the…

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    Chris Hammons

    July 17, 2012
  • Pixar’s Subtle Bravery

    I recently took my daughters to see Brave, the new movie from Pixar and Disney, and I found it thought provoking. Brave introduces Merida, a feisty Scottish princess with a bad habit of laying her weapons on the dinner table. Like most Disney princesses, Merida feels stifled by her current situation and attempts to makes…

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    Collin Garbarino

    July 13, 2012
  • Marshall Law

    Much has been written lately about the predicament that Roberts was in: How to make a ruling on an controversial piece of legislation without looking partisan?  Some conservatives have argued that Roberts tried to protect the legitimacy of the Court by deflecting  what surely would have been a campaign year issue if conservatives struck down…

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    Chris Hammons

    July 3, 2012
  • Smoke Gets in your Eyes.

    I love guns. I’m always surprised that some people discuss the subject with hushed tones, as if we are dancing around something improper or dirty. There is a stigma about guns that is altogether unwarranted and unfair, and I’d like my children to learn otherwise.  Here are four things I want them to consider. First,…

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    Chris Hammons

    June 14, 2012
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