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Trading Freedom for Security Is Often Dangerous

April 12th, 2013

By Dan Miller Freedom to do as we please has to yield to security and the freedom of others. How much freedom should we trade for security? How much do we still have? Another question is, do we still have choices? Our earnings, property and other assets are increasingly viewed by libruls as belonging to […]

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Tags: children, collectivism, culture, government, Orwell, society, Statist
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Is Earth Becoming Purgatory or Hell?

March 20th, 2013

By Dan Miller Or is it already one or the other? I don’t know the answer, but the question is a basis for this article. I am not a student of religion and know little of Roman Catholic doctrine concerning Purgatory and Hell. Nor, as best I can remember, have I ever stayed at a […]

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Tags: America, culture, foreign policy, hell, Israel, purgatory, students, theology
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Healthy Values Protect Your Kids from Media’s Unhealthy Messages

November 20th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor So what values will children growing up in the 21st century need to thrive? Perhaps surprisingly, my answer is the same values that have enabled children to thrive in previous generations: respect, responsibility, hard work, integrity, compassion, just to name a few. The increased presence of popular media in no way […]

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Tags: choices, culture, emotions, family, parenting, society, values
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The Election Results I Didn’t Want Came

November 7th, 2012

By Dan Miller It should have gone the other way but didn’t. There are reasons for that. We could have exercised more control than we did over some but the most important of them were no longer in our hands. It was a terrible night and I either drank too much or too little. Whichever […]

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Tags: culture, democracy, election, free stuff, government, gridlock, Obama
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Developing Children’s Healthy Self-identity

October 31st, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Self-identity is one of the trickier contributors to children’s healthy development because you can’t “do” things to your children to give them their self-identity. Rather, you can only create an environment that allows their self-identity to evolve naturally. A part of the environment that supports the emergence of culture and media, […]

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Tags: children, culture, parenting, self-identity, social media, technology, values
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