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Frightening: Passover fire in Pa Governor’s mansion
Gov. Josh Shapiro This is an important week for religious in America. Those numbers have been dwindling over the past decade, but many...
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Apr 133 min read
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Jackie Robinson, American hero, removed from Naval Academy library
One reading that students at military academies should engage in are biographies, particularly those of heroes. And Jackie Robinson is a...
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Apr 64 min read
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The "little girl from Chippewa Falls" smacked down world’s wealthiest man
Few in America had ever heard of Susan Crawford before 2025. Today, she is known as the little girl who smacked down the wealthiest man...
hughconrad52
Apr 43 min read
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I suffered from Measles — before the vaccine — and I clearly remember the horrible disease
Back in the 1950s, I was a young child. I suffered from the usual maladies of youth, but the one that I remember most clearly was the...
hughconrad52
Mar 103 min read
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Let America be America Again
By Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home...
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Mar 93 min read
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Destroying the Greatest Generation legacy: The Enola Gay photos removed from Defense Dept. database
“[T]he purge could delete as many as 100,000 images or posts in total” Tom Brokaw deemed that they were “The Greatest Generation,” and he...
hughconrad52
Mar 73 min read
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Banning a children’s book because of freckles? Julianne Moore’s “Freckleface Strawberry” banned by felon
“Freckleface Strawberry’ is a semi-autobiographical story about a seven year old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to...
hughconrad52
Mar 62 min read
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My novel, “The Rage of Needles” is one reason I am planning to move to Ireland.
A number of years ago, during the pandemic years of Covid in the early 20s, I started to look at writing some longer fiction. I have...
hughconrad52
Feb 133 min read
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Four in six years to 17-year drought: Remember 1979, not 2024
Only a limited number of us who can remember all four Please note : I recorded the records the old fashioned, “Old Math,” way, not the...
hughconrad52
Oct 30, 20242 min read
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Your college essays are often due on Nov. 1 -- and I can help
Over the past three years, I have been working with students to prepare writing their college essays. These can be the difference between...
hughconrad52
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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Most important election? Imagine if Wendell Wilkie had been elected in 1940
22nd Amendment would have been devastating in 1940 The New Yorker presented this frightening scenario in a recent article: At the 1940...
hughconrad52
Sep 30, 20246 min read
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The Culture of Silence: Lilly was stunned by the KKK killings a century ago
Photo by Phil Andraychak at Lilly-Washington Historical Society event The KKK riot against Irish and Italian Catholics in 1924 [Part 1 of...
hughconrad52
Sep 13, 20247 min read
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British tabloids have taken over at The Washington Post — whose top hires are under fire
Bezos losing big money -- to say nothing about reputation -- now at the Post … From Woodward and Bernstein to The Daily Telegraph Jeff...
hughconrad52
Jun 18, 20245 min read
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The frightening reality for teachers of writing: “AI and the Death of Student Writing”
… another major challenge In my many years of teaching English Composition, the introductory college English course, I, like so many...
hughconrad52
Jun 17, 20245 min read
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How ARII has destroyed the legacy that Art Rooney, Sr., “The Chief,” built by denigrating the Heinz legacy in Pittsburgh
The Chief believed in his community — We are Pittsburghers … renaming Heinz Field was a tremendous blow to The Chief One of the beautiful...
hughconrad52
Jun 12, 20246 min read
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The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, “the crown jewel,” is down 31 percent over 12 years
Truly a beautiful campus … part of a nationwide decline Few people realized that the most devastating recession in American history, the...
hughconrad52
Jun 11, 20244 min read
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“Why Johnny can’t read” — today more than half of Americans cannot read at a sixth-grade level
… A frightening but real scenario When I was a child, a book was released that became an immediate best-seller and tried to change the...
hughconrad52
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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Winston Churchill opposed the successful D-Day Plan recommended by Gen. Eisenhower
Gen. Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day, but FDR supported him Perhaps no one’s role in the victory of the Allied Forces...
hughconrad52
Jun 6, 20245 min read
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Explaining the truth to some Catholic school students in Wisconsin why the KKK invaded Lilly in 1924
“The Klan hated Catholics and Jews as well as Blacks” Fifth grader, St. Francis de Sales School When I asked a young fifth grader last...
hughconrad52
May 23, 20245 min read
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Penn State’s arrogance, greed in making branch campuses four-year schools could lead to their bankruptcy
I feel blessed today to have started by college education at PSU-Altoona … they have priced themselves out of business To date myself, I...
hughconrad52
May 15, 20244 min read
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