A Rockstar’s View of the World

March 12, 2013 By 4 Comments
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My oldest son took the ISTEP standardized test recently in a conference room at a local Ivy Tech center. He’s home-schooled through the K12 virtual academy, so he’d never met any of his classmates, though he’d spoken to some of them online, and I could tell he was a little self-conscious going in there. He [...]

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Caught Stealing

March 7, 2013 By 7 Comments

I caught my kids stealing last night. One of them turned up with two fifty cent pieces–and we never have fifty cent pieces circulating around here, so I assumed they came from elsewhere–maybe a friend from school. One of the other kids said that the first had stolen the pieces from him. But where did [...]

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Marriage as a crime prevention program

March 2, 2013 By 6 Comments

George Weigel nails it on Hard Ball with Chris Matthews in reference to the claim that a married clergy would prevent sexual abuse: “I don’t think anyone ought to think of marriage as a remedy for sexually immature people. Marriage is not a crime prevention program.” (begins around 3:20) Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world [...]

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