Every year, people debate whether stores should close on Thanksgiving and Christmas so retail workers can spend time with their families. I don’t feel qualified to weigh in on that issue. I’m just grateful that doctors, nurses, nursing home CNAs, and first responders report for duty, pilots and flight attendants still fly the (often not-so) […]
(In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary the armistice ending the Great War I, I publish the WWI diary of Albert J. Ebert. The late Mr. Ebert was my husband’s grandfather and served in France in 1918 and 1919. He enlisted in the navy but found himself in the trenches pulling infantry duty.
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We are living in a feminist dystopia. Nobody has more independent woman street cred than yours truly, the Academic Redneck. I traveled the world by myself in my twenties. I waited to marry until I was in my mid-thirties. Now in my fifties, I am child-free by choice. I never had an abortion, but I
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In the promotional materials for the new documentary Death of a Nation, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza says the following: “Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end,
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Conservatives celebrate and liberals wail about Justice Anthony Kennedy’s upcoming Supreme Court retirement. Partisan publications feature over-the-top predictions about the court’s future. Hysterical leftists believe reproductive rights and Rowe v. Wade are under assault. They assert that a new Supreme Court will reduce all childbearing-age women to breeders and scullery maids. Right-wingers say that a
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In 2005, a landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling damaged individual property rights. Specifically, the Kelo v. City of New London case established an unfair eminent domain precedent. Little Pink House, an independent film released this year, speaks to this issue. It dramatizes the heartbreak of New London, Connecticut residents who lost their homes in this unfortunate court
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