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Are You A Boy? No? Would You Like To Be One? Then You Can Be A Boy Scout
Memo to the Boy Scouts: You will never go far enough.
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Can U2 Save America from Donald Trump?
Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills — "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987 U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to
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Church/State Flap Nixes School Chorus Easter Appearance at Italian Basilica
A Massachusetts public school chorus cancelled a performance planned for Easter Sunday Mass in Italy after an advocacy organization told school officials it would violate the First Amendment. The chamber chorus at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School is planning to tour Europe in the spring. The highlight of the original schedule
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Hillbillies ‘R Us
If you care about the collapse of the culture in America today, Hillbilly Elegy is a must-read. The author, J.D. Vance, has written an honest and penetrating portrait about growing up in Appalachia in a white, working-class family. An utterly dysfunctional family!
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Thank You for Being Late… Care to Dance in a Hurricane?
Gentle reader, if the feverish pace of change in technology, globalization and climate change both fascinates and frightens you, read Tom Friedman's new book, Thank You for Being Late. His forensic examination and farsighted explanation of the acceleration of everything is an exercise in expeditionary learning and his
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Christmas, the New Year, and the Fullness of Time
"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons." And so wrote St Paul to the Galatians, setting forth his argument
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From Silent Night To Silence
The most abrupt and shocking transition in the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar occurs from December 25th to 26th, when the Church pivots from celebrating the birth of Jesus to marking the brutal stoning of St. Stephen. This liturgical mood swing between "mercy mild" and monstrous
John Glenn
‘Godspeed, John Glenn’: Public hails hero of space, politics
Tributes poured in for former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95. Politicians, astronauts, educators and others called him a hero, with many mentioning the phrase that first sent him into orbit: "Godspeed, John Glenn." Here's a look of some
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