The future of civilization is our children. Our progeny will lead the world into a future we can only imagine as it was with our ancestors. We pour time, money, and resources into educating, instructing, molding, and exhorting our children into adulthood so that they can go forth into life …
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I am positive that this has been utilized ad nauseam over the years for any number of references by countless authors and commentators. The line itself comes from George Orwell’s 1984. It’s fascinating but I’ve read this reference utilized by myriad bloggers and news people to make cases that are …
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Our culture is simply rife with aphorisms pertaining to our belief in work ethic as well as an adherence to truth and solid values. Of course, the risk here is that our reliance on truth and common sense has morphed into the realm of platitude with the most recent generations. Our leaders …
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For anyone who has ever attempted to grow anything we know that it is essential to care for the soil in which you will plant. Even casual interest reveals that you cannot hope to be successful without attention to the circumstances and environment that you are working with. This leads …
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Today we have turned words and expressions in our language inside out. Good is bad and bad is good but we do it “in the name of fairness” so that makes it OK right? What we’re doing, however, is making the environment we live in a tinder box that will …
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P.J. O’Rourke famously quipped “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” The reality of that statement began to “trickle down” to individuals this past year as Obamacare began to kick in at the next level. Roughly five million individuals …
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