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Debt-Free Homeschoolers
We became completely debt-free while we were homeschooling our four kids, and that was hard enough, but I’m completely blown away by this homeschooling family, who are also debt-free but have 13 kids! You can learn a lot from how this smart couple handles their finances, which is spelled out in the article.
The Price of Freedom of Speech Keeps Going Up
A respected doctor at Ohio’s prestigious Cleveland Clinic wrote an article questioning the wisdom of inoculating babies with so many vaccines, and he ended up being publicly criticized by his employers for doing so.
Nowadays, there seems to be quite a price to be paid for freedom of speech. If you go against the mainstream, you must suffer. I’m glad there are people like this doctor who are still willing to speak their mind, even though they are persecuted for it.
One Hundred Years Ago Today…
…the great Ella Fitzgerald was born. She overcame adversity (including the deaths of both parents when she was young) after discovering her talent and putting it to use. Today many people are remembering her and celebrating her life (here and here, for instance). I think I will just share some of her talent here and maybe others will also become fans of hers:
More College Silliness
Here we go again, with a major university that gets millions of dollars from parents of college students who simply want a good education wasting kids’ time by pushing indoctrination instead. And this school is just up the road from me :0
UW-Madison is offering “men-identified students” (sheesh!) the opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a man. Oh, brother, we can see where this is going.