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The Russian Are Coming, the Russian Are Coming. And these are not the nice ones from that movie who only wanted to return home safely. These Russians had an agenda, false identities, and they saw success. The Russians were here, not only on Facebook and posting lunatic comments almost like Americans, but in person, on…
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First, I turned off email alerts a few years ago. Then I limited my visits to once a day, then to only a couple times in a week. I tried deactivating my account and found that it spontaneously reactivated because of my use of other websites. It is time to bite the bullet. With some…
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Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS’ CNN Staff Updated 5:38 PM ET, Sat February 17, 2018 (CNN)Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, addressed a gun control rally on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, days after a gunman entered her school in nearby Parkland and killed…
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If 17 children hadn’t been shot and killed three days ago, I might not have disliked Black Panther so much that I had to stand and walk to the back of the theater. Explosions, chase scenes, and brutal battles with black men killing other black men with the underlying thesis of absolute honor and inherited…
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As a teacher in public and private schools for over 40 years, I have never been injured by a student, but among other incidents, students have yelled and sworn at me thrown a chair at the wall thrown a heavy metal padlock at me (it missed) drawn a penis on a classroom poster written about…
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Every morning, my husband and I walk the shore. We usually head north toward Asbury Creek, or what even-now-I-am-not-certain might be Shark Creek. I have a map from decades ago and those creeks flow in other places. So we walk north. We almost never go out in rain, but we can see the rain shadow…
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One of my students recently wrote a research paper arguing that corporal punishment should be banned in our country. I was familiar with his compelling arguments. Other students have made the same argument and backed it up with overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is ineffective in changing behavior, can cause lifelong emotional damage, and inevitably…
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GRAVITY for Gary on Valentine’s Day I do not thank gravity, or the world spinning nearly 900 miles per hour. No thanks to the sun rising behind my house, Apollo’s daily chariot race. Spinning nearly 900 miles per hour, the Earth whirls—this is how you make my home. Apollo’s chariot racing across my sky…
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SCARLET by Michelle Horgen February 28 – March 25, 2018, Portland Playhouse Condemned by her community, Hester fights to build a life for her and her daughter in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts. Funny, sweet, and heroic; this new musical based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter stars Rebecca Teran, Isaac Lamb, Susannah Mars, Darius Pierce, Dana Green, and many…
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