inclusion
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What Kind of Politicians Are We Raising: Op-Ed
Read more: What Kind of Politicians Are We Raising: Op-Ed“Dad, even though we believe different things, it’s ok, we still play soccer together.” With two young boys, my dinner table offers up plenty of opportunity to introduce and reinforce the values and principles I want my children to demonstrate as they grow into young men. School days, soccer matches, cub scout meetings and neighborhood…
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Laura Stewart Misses the Point of Campaigning
Read more: Laura Stewart Misses the Point of CampaigningThe board game Game of Life as we know it today was originally published in 1960. My edition at home is from the year ca. 2000, and it certainly shows its age in terms of social norms. Nevertheless, there is one square that is as germane today as it was in 1960: Run for Mayor,…
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Marc Elrich’s Living Green Lifestyle is Sincere, His Coercion Less So
Read more: Marc Elrich’s Living Green Lifestyle is Sincere, His Coercion Less SoJust about every week County Executive Marc Elrich sends out a video message. Almost all of these messages pertain to policy, commemorations, awards, meetings, and the CE’s outs-and-abouts. The message from September 1 was quite different. He gave us a view of his home, his gardening, and to some extent his personal life. Mr. Elrich…
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Despite Rain, Smears and Intolerant Rhetoric by Local Elected Officials, Hundreds Still Showed Up to Ask for Simple “Opt Out” Option at MCPS
Read more: Despite Rain, Smears and Intolerant Rhetoric by Local Elected Officials, Hundreds Still Showed Up to Ask for Simple “Opt Out” Option at MCPSPhoto Credit: Reardon Sullivan It isn’t going away. The grassroots energy. The passion for basic civil liberties and religious freedom, for pluralism. The grassroots movement for basic parental notification and yes, an “opt out” option on select MCPS curriculum. None of this organizing is going away, like the local MoCo politicians or the Montgomery Board…
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BOE Lynne Harris Calls Muslim Girl “Brainwashed”
Read more: BOE Lynne Harris Calls Muslim Girl “Brainwashed”On May 25th, at a school board meeting, a high school Muslim student testified on her desire to opt-out of the LGTBQ curriculum being required by MCPS. As covered by MoC0 360, school board member Lynne Harris expressed feeling “kind of sorry” for the girl and wondering if she had just been “parroting dogma”. The…
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The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice Illusion
Read more: The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice IllusionThere are a three commonplace events that make me pause and feel how fortunate I am to be an American. One of them is when buying paper towels and toilet paper from Costco. It’s difficult to find a more effective combination of mass production, mass consumption, voluntary exchange, impeccable quality control, and a large corporation…
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Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…
Read more: Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…I’ve been studying the “woke” (critical social justice) movement since the Evergreen State riots in 2017. I have always identified as a classic liberal, and I still do. I am self-employed, and one could easily argue that I work in the progress business; I earn more when my clients do well, less and sometimes none…