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A world without boys’ chapter books
As a homeschooling mother of six children, including four boys, our home library of children’s books is extensive. My older children are reading chapter books, and they…
November 6, 2024
The latest Washington Examiner magazine:How Republicans & Democrats picked Trump & Harris; UK Prime Minister Keir Starrmer is a warning sign for U.S. voters
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Direct democracy returns to Washington state
John Spellman vacated the Washington governor’s mansion, a Georgian-style structure on state Capitol grounds in Olympia, in early 1985. Since then, no Republican has gone to the…
Business
Unrelenting mortgage market reveals the Federal Reserve’s limitations
After the nation’s worst price hike crisis in 40 years, inflation is down to 2.1%. That’s just a tick above the Federal Reserve‘s long-standing inflation goal of 2%…
Entertainment
When baseball mattered
“Pitch perfect.” “Fresh.” “Really good.” So say the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and the Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican of Netflix’s new docuseries, The Comeback, a three-episode look…
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Generation Z pathology
One of the hallmarks of great literature is that it reminds readers that their feelings have already been felt, their despair suffered, and their hopes shared by…
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Adverse legal ruling against Google doesn’t mean penalties are coming any time soon
Given the media frenzy around the federal antitrust actions against Google, three separate antitrust cases on distinct matters and in a trio of different phases, it is…
Entertainment
Love in the time of cancer
Throughout movie history, few genres have been more consistently disparaged, disrespected, and disdained than what might be called the cancer-crossed romance. To their cynical critics, movies such…
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Sir! Yes, sir!
I told you last time about how I feared Army basic training after watching the portrayal of Marine recruit training in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.…
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Working for liberty
Randy Barnett’s absorbing new memoir begins, like any good story, in medias res: with his trailblazing oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark Gonzales…
Beltway Confidential
Against the rise, literally, of political porn
A Democratic campaign theme and even an advertisement in its closing stretch is a sign, for some of us past the age of 50, that the zeitgeist…