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I am awake, I am not Woke. Thanks to loving, kind parents, my sister and I were taught there was injustice in the world -- racial, economic, and other -- and we should do what we could to fight it. (My parents were a mother and a father, not a
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People are permitted to change their mind about their convictions, but they should have a good reason for the change. According to Gov. Josh Shapiro in a broadcast interview, he said he abandoned his long-held belief in capital punishment in part because his son asked a question he could not
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Today I voluntarily walk into the quicksand of Woke, which I generously award a capital W, so we can easily spot it. The danger in discussing Woke, like its ally CRT, is that we don’t have a universal definition. So I will invent one, as I did with CRT,
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It was believed that in it’s forward slither to cleanse any offense, real or imagined, from American life, Wokeism had attacked a cherished (and tasty) institution — the Girl Scout cookie.. Funds raised by the sale of cookies fund various Girl Scout activities, as well as community projects. Each year,
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Somebody didn’t get the message. The New York Times is reporting that the neutral site for a potential playoff between the Kansas City Chiefs (go, Andy Reid) and the Buffalo Bills (go, Damar Hamlin) will be Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. That game would be played Sunday, Jan. 29, at
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Happy New Year? It’s 2023. 2023? What a nothing number. Like they say in baseball, lots of crooked numbers, but it surely doesn’t roll off the tongue, does it? If we were at a dance, 2023 would be a wallflower. Not fun like 2020, which sounded like a
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Once upon a time, New Year’s Eve was the most important, and often traumatic, night of the year. As a young kid, it was a turning point when I was allowed to stay up to see — or hear, before TV — the countdown from Times Square, followed by the gooey
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The six-part Netflix “documentary” is about three hours too long, and a mirror held up to reveal our own biases about the world’s most famous interracial couple. “Harry & Meghan” was part of an estimated $100-million deal between the former Royals and the mammoth streaming company. When it made
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While I wait for kickoff…
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A rally to protest streets being taken over by street-illegal ATVs and dirt bikes, plus street-legal racing cars and motorcycles that are driven illegally, will be held Monday at 4 p.m. on the Art Museum steps. You should attend if possible. There are at least three issues: 1- The
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Hallelujah, Social Security is going woke. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of our ever-vigilant Social Security Administration, announced people now have the choice to self-select their sex on their Social Security number (SSN) record. No bureaucratic involvement. “The Social Security Administration’s Equity Action Plan includes a commitment to decrease administrative