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Archives for May 2010

Uma análise dos melhores novos cassinos online para jogadores no Brasil

Você se pergunta por que muitos rapazes e moças se interessam em jogar em cassinos? Por que há tanta paixão por jogos de cassino online? Uma das razões pelas quais os rapazes continuam a jogar em cassinos online é a enorme variedade de entretenimento que a indústria de jogos de azar apresenta atualmente. Mas como encontrar um lugar confiável para … [Read more...]

Of Canyons & Education

The Grand Canyon spread its magnificent sandstone expanse upward and away, colors swirling in its impossibly steep walls, contrasting the distant pale blue sky, an immense reverse river wending its way for unseen miles. I sat there, exhausted, beat up, and in exaltation, feeling about as significant as the sand below me, waiting for its turn to … [Read more...]

Sunday Poem: How Did You Die? by Edmund Cook

Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. How Did You Die? Edmund Cook Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn’t the fact that you’re … [Read more...]

Unintended Consequences of Arizona’s Recent Immigration Law

In 1850, French economist Frederic Bastiat penned the essay "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen" to illustrate how lack of foresight relates to the law of unintended consequences. Through a series of examples, including the parable of the "Broken Window," Bastiat demonstrated that we tend to view only the immediate visible effects of … [Read more...]

Reviving the “McGuffy Paradigm”

Have you heard of the McGuffy Readers? Do you know there were 120 million of them sold in the middle part of our nation’s history? They were the standard educational text for America for a hundred years. So what's in them? Well, the first page of the first book talks about cats and rats, the second page shows the cat eating the rat, the third … [Read more...]

Sunday Poem: The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. The Builders Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the … [Read more...]