SQJ Taipei

A couple weeks ago, I discovered that one of my daughter’s dance teachers is weighing the girls every week, writing down their weight in the attendance book, and then pointing out how much fatter they got since the last class.
Besides physical abuse, I can hardly think of anything more destructive to an 11 or 12 [...]

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Patrick Cowsill has a really interesting post about POWs in Taiwan during WWII. If you remember… Taiwan was under Japanese control until the end of WWII… so the POWs were Allied forces.
Patrick’s grandfather served in the Pacific and writes…
Actually, my grandpa hated the war; he rarely talked about it.
Same with my grandfather, who also served [...]

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Not an insult… far from it.
I’ve been trying to get through about a million unread items in my feedreader and kept saving Sowell’s articles for later because they are almost always good and thought provoking and I wanted to make sure I had time for them.
The result?
If I clicked “share” on all of them (in [...]

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A few weeks ago I wondered if WV had internet access.
At least Wierton does.

To the visitor from Weirton, I don’t know who you were… but if you come back and leave a comment, I’ll send you a present as I mentioned in the original post. Seriously!
NOTE: I love WV and *know* y’all have internet access… [...]

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So far this year… the only state with ZERO visitors to my blog is West Virginia.
I’m kinda OCD so if someone has a friend who lives in WV, would you please ask them to visit this blog? If they leave a comment it is even likely that I’d send them a thank you gift of [...]

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Here’s a fun civics quiz for you to take. It will take about 15 minutes, but is worth your time.
After you take the test, you’ll get to look at some alarming statistics showing that US Colleges and Universities are failing at teaching civics. For many questions, graduating college seniors score lower than incoming freshman. Why [...]

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Although it is at the NRA convention, he speaks more about America and other things than about the right to bear arms.
When we’ve been back in the USA, I’ve always enjoyed when I had the chance to hear Beck’s radio show or watch his TV show. I love it when people shoot straight and he [...]

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I’ve posted about John Ondrasik before.
In a time when Hollywood and many entertainers display a complete disconnect with reality and display their ignorance of history and current events… it is all the more refreshing to hear someone from that sphere who is articulate and knowledgeable. There are a few out there.
I want to clarify that [...]

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