True frogs and their dry-land relatives, toads, are semi-aquatic amphibians that are found on every continent except Antarctica. Toads are in fact a type of frog and are generally distinguished by their dry, bumpy skin, smaller hind-legs, stout bodies, and ...
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What We Learned From The Petraeus Scandal
The head of the C.I.A is someone that we expect to be discreet: someone who should be able to keep his private life to himself. Shockingly, it is becoming apparent that not even the nation’s spy master is able to ...
Read More »America’s Need For A New Military Strategy
The United States spends $711 billion on defense spending every year—more than three times the spending of China, the country with the second-highest budget for defense. This isn’t new spending, either; the United States has a long history of dumping ...
Read More »Home Remedies For Vaginal Yeast Infections
Vaginal yeast infections are the downside of taking antibiotics. If you have ever had a yeast infection, you probably weren’t sure which was worse, the ailment you were taking the antibiotics for or the resulting yeast infection. Not every woman ...
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My mother’s vegetable garden was a formidable opponent. It spanned over a quarter of an acre and included almost every vegetable you could think of, plus a prolific berry patch. The garden was flanked on one side by a wooded ...
Read More »The Homeschooling Life: Learning Everywhere You Look
I recently had an interesting conversation with one of my friends about the subject of homeschooling. She admitted that her son in first grade hates school and fights going every morning. When I asked her if she’d ever considered homeschooling, ...
Read More »Don’t Be The Next Tragedy
A recent tragedy on the Ozark trail has really touched me and gotten me thinking. A thirty-six-year-old father who was an Air Force veteran and his two sons, ages ten and eight, died of exposure after getting turned around on ...
Read More »The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy and writing about conspiracy seems to be one of mankind’s major activities. —Neal Wilgus, The Illuminoids (1978) A conspiracy has power to the degree that it speaks to the prevailing beliefs and hopes of the day. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, ...
Read More »Don’t Toss those Outgrown And Worn Out Clothes!
We all know what shape the economy is in, and that shape calls for us to be more responsible. We must be better stewards of our disposable income and what we have. None of us – no matter what our ...
Read More »A Country Boy’s Version Of Gun Control
I owned my first BB gun at the young age of eight years. By then, my father and I had been over every lesson a young boy might need in order to safely handle a weapon. How did he teach ...
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