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Tag Archives: Social Issues

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Opinion: Sorry libs, you can’t replace dads with government

It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and the collateral damage is all around us.

1 week ago June 19, 2022 in Commentary.
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Why COVID-19 and our racial divide make this Father’s Day significant

The COVID-19 crisis and racial tensions make Father’s Day more important this year than most, says a social scientist and author who argues for the importance of fathers, especially in the development of boys to men.   

June 21, 2020 in Commentary.
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Vergennes shelter makes concern about local homelessness a holiday priority

When you ask Elizabeth Ready, former director of the John Graham Housing & Services shelter in Vergennes, about the holidays and homelessness, you might think her reaction would reflect an overwhelming sense of so much work to be done and so little time. Not so.

December 22, 2019 in TNR News.
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Why we should still celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving

Debunking the nature and origin of Thanksgiving seems to be turning into its own cottage industry. But the Pilgrim Thanksgiving story is based on real events. The small band of religious dissenters who crossed an ocean to a dangerous new world have, rightly, been given special prominence in the origin story of the United States.

November 27, 2019 in Commentary.
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Unmarried couples having nearly half of America’s kids

Unmarried couples are having roughly 40 percent of all births in the U.S., marking a significant increase in births outside of wedlock in the last half century.

January 2, 2019 in U.S..
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Tucker Carlson on Nike, Kaepernick: ‘Real problem’ that the ‘most successful’ in US ‘hate this society’

“Sitting during the national anthem is a way of making a broad-based, generalized, and therefore impossible-to-rebut attack against the country that made him and Nike rich.”

September 5, 2018 in U.S..
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Does your expensive health insurance cover breast augmentation for transgenders? This one does

Following its move to expand coverage, the company will review any requests by transgender persons that it denied since January 2016.

August 6, 2018 in U.S..
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K-12 schools bringing in drag queens to teach gender ideology to kids

Teachers are praising “Drag Queen Story Hour,” according to a clip released by videographer Sean Fitzgerald and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The program “captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

August 5, 2018 in U.S..
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Frenier: Beyond sexual liberation

It is time for women to reject both sex-as-repression and sex-as-freedom models and come up with a model of our own that includes our commitment to relationships and to our young.

July 23, 2018 in Commentary.
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SCOTUS gay wedding cake ruling beginning to liberate other religious objectors

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a florist who declined to provide flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding back to the highest court in Washington state.

June 26, 2018 in U.S..
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Parents outraged as biological male transgender athletes place first and second in girls track championships

Two athletes who were born males placed first and second in state track championship events for high school girls, causing anger among other competitors and parents who say they had an unfair advantage over the girls.

June 17, 2018 in TNR News.
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Mayors meet in Massachusetts to push transgender bathrooms, ignore safety concerns

The Sunday conference comes after “Keep MA Safe” — a group dedicated to repealing Massachusetts’ 2016 bill that allows transgenders to use the restroom according to their preferred gender — started a petition to repeal the law.

June 12, 2018 in U.S..

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