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There is an overarching message to techno-dystopias: something in our nature makes us willing to destroy ourselves in avoiding reality. Only later do we realize that the real world, for all its faults, is better than the one we fled to. By
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"What separates successful strategies from unsuccessful ones? Are there any misplaced efforts? In what may be a surprise, young people aren’t concerned with a church being trendy or modern, according to a study from Christianity Today of 250 churches."
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We don't need to dwell in castles of constant entertainment. While the present culture makes it harder than ever to resist mindless pleasure, living well is possible: we can avoid "amusing ourselves to death" by thinking deliberately about our experiences.
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#ICYMI Millions of illegal aliens have been apprehended at the border every year since President Trump left office—a direct consequence of the open-borders policies pushed by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the person who appointed him: Joe Biden.
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#RememberingTheRight "The Agrarian heritage remains an astonishing achievement...Taken together, these volumes established a distinctive southern conservatism which has, in one way or another, continued to spread its influence down to the present.
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"Biden undid most of Trump’s successful border policies shortly after entering office. His administration halted the construction of the border wall, ended the remain in Mexico policy, and terminated asylum agreements with Central American countries."
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"Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" —George Washington
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#ICYMI "We live in a golden age of information when many medical sources and journals are publicly accessible...It’s up to us to be informed participants in our healthcare decisions, ready and willing to advocate for ourselves."
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There is joy in children despite their untidy ways, and our lives too short to be upset over the clutter they bring to a home. There is nothing wrong with orderliness, but we need to ensure that we’re not putting it above those we love. By
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#RememberingTheRight "The culmination of Buckley’s success was…the election of Reagan in 1980. The great irony is that in the process, he had to leave behind the 'counter-revolutionary' that he had imagined himself…to become a pillar of the establishment"
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"Bolshevik leaders…promoted national self-determination among the many peoples of the recently disbanded empire."
"But promoting ethnic separatism would not be enough…The communists showed no mercy in eradicating Christianity. Churches were demolished."
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Anyone who’s recently visited a hospital knows that healthcare is broken. Prices are outrageous, answers are slim, insurance is a mess. A string of bad decisions have led to a dysfunctional and increasingly politicized medical system. How did this happen?
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#ICYMI "The problem for wealthy societies like Japan is that women and men no longer feel that having and raising children is a fulfilling life project…By the time that many women realise that it could be, their biological clock has already stopped."
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"I just feel like there’s some stuff going on with me...I can’t decide if I’m a girl who feels kind of like a boy or like a gay man trapped in a girl’s body or if I’m, like, a boy but in a very feminine way."
These people do have "some stuff going on."
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#RememberingTheRight "Kendall...came to reject the widely held pluralist view that the American Founders envisioned self-seeking, mutually frustrating clashes between factions or interest groups as the essence of politics in the new republic."
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The fissure between the public education system and parents began in 2020, when school districts across the country went remote. Parents began to see what their children were being taught and how much power teachers' unions held over the system.
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I'm in almost complete agreement. Almost, because my specific case shows that even ordinary, no-so-great people can be conservative.
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“One extreme group among the Communists held that it was morally wrong for a professional revolutionist to have children,” wrote Whittaker Chambers. “They could only hamper or distract his work.”
explains why having kids overcomes Marxism
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"The U.S. takes roughly 1 million legal immigrants each year. In 2017, there were approximately 10.5 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. There are roughly 45 million migrants, both legal and illegal in the United States as of 2019."
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