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Redefine what ‘man up’ truly means to save lives

I frequently speak with parents who have lost their child to suicide. Recently, I met with the mother of a teenage boy. She shared he had been dealing with mental health challenges for several months but seemed to be improving. One evening, he sent her a casual “I love you, Mom.” She did not think much of it at the time. After a concerned friend reached out, she used a phone-tracking feature to locate him and tragically found him in his car. After his burial, she discovered text messages where her son had written to a friend about the struggles he was having. The last message he ...

Mass-graves myth is media malpractice

A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn’t the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up a story too sensational not to be true: Hundreds of indigenous First Nations children had been buried in unmarked graves at schools run by the Catholic Church in British Columbia. The Kamloops Indian Band said remains of 215 ...

What are our tax dollars truly funding?

Carroll, Champaign, Hardin, Harrison, Holmes, Meigs, Morgan, Noble, Preble and Vinton counties did not have a single private school during the 2025 fiscal year. Most of those students simply do not have the option to use a taxpayer-funded voucher to attend a private school. Meanwhile, Ohio spent more than a BILLION dollars on those vouchers during the same school year, with almost half of that amount coming from the expansion of the EdChoice program, according to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal. If you’re in the dark about what your tax dollars are funding with these ...

America needs more, not fewer, billionaires

Billionaires are getting a bad name. “Eat the rich” is the new mantra of the left’s greed and envy lobby. Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America’s empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. Now the left in America demonizes them. We see the assault on wealth every day: wealth taxes, blue states are raising their income taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and many Democrats in Washington wanting to institute tax rates above 50%. But much of this rich-bashing isn’t based on fact. Robert Reich of the ...

American education dooms young boys to failure

It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls. A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, “You’re six and the ceremony enters minute 37.” The footage went viral because the boy is cute, and the situation is so relatable for parents. But for boys, moments like this are no laughing matter. Think about most modern early elementary classrooms. Many teachers want students to spend hours a ...

Does it really matter what Helen of Troy looked like?

It’s the controversy that has launched a thousand X posts. Elon Musk, who is a fan of Homer, has kicked up a fuss by objecting to filmmaker Christopher Nolan casting the black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his forthcoming movie version of “The Odyssey.” The epic production presumably won’t rise or fall based on its depiction of Helen, the legendary beauty who precipitated the Trojan War. That conflict is portrayed in “The Iliad,” while “The Odyssey” follows the Greek warrior Odysseus on his return home after the war, a story that doesn’t feature ...