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Ed Taylor, who has run a free Santa School since 2015, says interest has surged in recent years.

While high-end Santas can earn more than $10,000 a month, many of Taylor’s students say the real reward is purpose and fulfillment in retirement. https://wapo.st/3MOhz7u

Merry Christmas, dear ones!

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

I had my first ever go at one of those round table talking heads sort of shows, and promised myself ahead of time that I wouldn't turn into a shouting head.

And then one of the panelists said something utterly silly... I didn't shout, but you might be able to hear my eyeroll.

‘The Great Task Remaining Before Us’: Lincoln’s Vision at Gettysburg On the anniversary of his address, a reminder that democracy requires dedication.

If Lincoln could speak of a “new birth of freedom” amid such darkness, surely, we can speak of national renewal today—not as nostalgia, but as obligation, a shared purpose toward which we can work.

"My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in his love." #DorothyDay #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

If You Say Yes to Any of These 5 Questions, Science Says You're More Emotionally Intelligent Than You Think You may discover you're more self-aware, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent than you assume.

You may discover you're more self-aware, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent than you assume. trib.al/8QQmtXJ

A more than 1,000-year-old Viking ship goes on a very short, final voyage It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even further — over a millennium.

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even further — over a millennium.

Tylenol, Vaccines, and Leucovorin: What Trump and RFK Jr. Got Wrong At a White House event, President Trump, flanked by HHS Secretary Robert F.

My thoughts on what RFK Jr and President Trump got wrong about autism.
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"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible (1964)." #MLK #PrayForPeace #PrayForAmerica

Check out this Place of worship for sale on Rightmove Place of worship for sale in Culross Abbey, Kirk Street, Culross, KY12 8JD, KY12 for £35,000. Marketed by Church of Scotland, Edinburgh

Tempted... always fancied an abbey...

(of course, it's very cheap, because of the upkeep costs and almost entire lack of other legal uses...)

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Faithfulness in unusual circumstances, public appearances and from the lofty perch of pedestals is really not too surprising. Faithfulness on an assembly line job for forty years, putting the same piece in the same place in the same way, is far more extraordinary.

#LaborDay

Not blaming others means taking personal responsibility for your actions and feelings, rather than assigning fault to other people or external circumstances when something goes wrong. Instead of feeling anger or resentment, you focus on accountability, solutions, and learning from mistakes.

#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄

Why do you think Kirk had to steal some from the 1980s

Nick Catoggio: "They told me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d end up with a command-and-control economy. And they were right."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God.”

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I'm not sure of the origin of this prayer, but it is helpful. You can adapt it for lots of circumstances.

Jenson Huang: "I hope suffering happens to you...greatness comes from character & character...is formed out of people who suffered..I wish upon you ample doses of pain & suffering."

Huang is president, co-founder, and CEO of Nvidia.

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This is the first time (2025-26) that the Spirit of Houston is playing together this year. Yes, they are that good. Go Coogs!
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YouTube video by Etta James Etta James Sufferin' Till Suffrage

Happy 19th Amendment. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Here is the great Etta James singing "Sufferin' Till Suffrage."

"And now we pull down on the lever.
Cast our ballots, and we endeavor.
To improve our country, state, county, town, and school.""

To Handle Russia And Iran, The U.S. Must Embrace A New Guiding Principle As we were for a time after World War II, the U.S. is uncertain about its role in the world. This must change—or else.

As we were for a time after World War II, the U.S. is uncertain about its role in the world. This must change—or else.

“Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

- Dr.Seuss.🌱

i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power

Opinion | What if Dred Scott Had Been Decided Correctly? The infamous case’s dissent that Lincoln loved.

Benjamin Curtis was "a man of his time, which makes it all the more striking that he could see a truth that some Americans," writes our columnist @jamellebouie.net, “are eager to deny: Our Constitution, and our political community, includes nothing less than the whole people.”

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Neighborhood bars just calling out incipient tyranny

Alexander Grothendieck: "[Most mathematicians] are like the inheritors of a large and beautiful house all ready-built...with which there is indeed everything to cook and tinker.” [But he is part of a rarer breed: the builders,] “whose instinctive vocation and joy is to construct new houses”.

James T. Kirk: "But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk: Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her."