I have a dirty little secret. Several, actually. I think school uniforms are a good idea. I think child molesters should be locked up for life, not merely put on a registry. So what in the world am I doing at the..
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Do Unto Others
On a recent trip to South Carolina, I found passions engaged over a proposal by a member of the State Board of Education to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms.
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The Importance of the Liberal Arts
Why study the liberal arts?
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Relearning Old Lessons
The election has come and gone, and Republicans and Democrats alike are expressing amazement that a Democrat is the new Mayor in "Republican" Indianapolis. How did it happen, and what does it mean?…
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New Millennium
When I was growing up in Anderson, Indiana, it was not unusual to be called "dirty Jew" or "kike" by a young classmate who had obviously gotten the terminology at home. After one such incident, when I ran home crying, my mother said something I never forgot….
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