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  • 1 week ago | 1819news.com | Jeff Minick

    When it comes to children, we’re more than ready to acknowledge that screens have had a negative impact on their well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” is proof. As of April, that book had spent 52 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list. But when it comes to screens and adults, we’re less willing to acknowledge our problems.

  • 1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick

    During World War I, more than 880,000 men fighting for Great Britain died,  that constituted 6 percent of the male population and over 12 percent of those engaged. The peak of these horrendous statistics occurred during the first day of the on July 1, 1916, when the British suffered 57,000 casualties, including 19,240 dead. One of those who fell in this bloodbath of a war was John Kipling (1897–1915), the only son of writer and poet Rudyard Kipling and his American-born wife, Caroline Balestier.

  • 1 week ago | alphanews.org | Jeff Minick

    The song “Sgt. MacKenzie” pays tribute to Charles Stuart MacKenzie, who died in 1917 in the trenches during World War I. His great-grandson, Joseph Kilna MacKenzie, wrote this lament while grieving his own wife’s death and remembering his ancestor’s brave last stand against the bayonet-wielding enemy.

  • 1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Jeff Minick

    Surely one of Donald Trump’s most positive attributes is his sense of humor. He’s probably the funniest president in American history.. When Trump first proposed changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I laughed out loud, believing he was joking. Nope. When he suggested making Greenland a state or some sort of protectorate, I laughed again, though this time I knew he was serious.

  • 1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick

    On June 21, 1974, a federal judge sentenced Charles “Chuck” Colson (1931–2012) to one to three years in prison for the Watergate-related crime of obstruction of justice regarding the case of Daniel Ellsberg. The attorney who was considered Richard Nixon’s “hatchet man,” Colson pled guilty—astonishing many Americans. Those in the media who despised Nixon were especially happy with his conviction.

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