For those of us who have weathered the storm that is K-12 public education or have successfully completed an undergraduate degree, you’ve probably completed a course or two in American and/or world history through the 20th century. And if you are anything like me, your interest in history was not strong during those years and
Economics
Economic Lessons from an Amusement Park
My wife and I found ourselves in Orlando a few months ago for a leadership conference supporting our home business with doTERRA (Check her out over at www.smallqueendom.com). She had made flight arrangements beforehand and found an awesome deal flying out of a regional airport nearby that had us both arriving and departing with some
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Were Adam and Eve Historical Humans?
Some of history’s most iconic stories, those that have pervaded and impacted culture, come from the Christian Bible. And perhaps no other characters, apart from Christ Himself, have left such a broad and lasting legacy on so many institutions of human culture than those of Adam and Eve. The first humans encountered during many a
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Public School: Short History of A Progressive Triumph
Back to school time is here again and it feels as though it comes earlier every year. And in honor of this momentous occasion, I thought it might be interesting to learn a bit about the history of American public education. In doing so, I think we will find a rich legacy of the myriad
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Current Events
The Only Necessary Question to Ask Someone Who Says “There Ought to Be a Law!”
“There ought to be a law!” Perhaps more than any other modern era, Americans today are obsessed with the proper role of law. Some citizens, old and young, lament the loss of a long ago time of some unified, less partisan, less divided polity. Whether that has ever been the case in our past (it