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Broken civilizations get rebuilt at the local community level as families, businesses, churches and small civil governments begin to learn what those local institutions can be. That is happening right now in the US, primarily in rural counties.

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The Day Every Kid Brought a Gun to School

Yes, this is a true story from the American frontier. I got it first-hand from my grandmother who was there as the young schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse. All kids brought guns every day. And so did their teacher. Find out why, and find out how they were able to pass exams with questions like the following at age 14:

· If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. Per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?

· Name the parts of the Bill of Rights and explain which rights they protect.

· Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.

· Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.

· What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per square meter?

· Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.

· What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?

· Relate the causes and results of the...

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The Slanders "Racist" and "Islamophobe" Are Winning the Cutlure War

Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.

But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?

To All Generations

Eph 3:20  Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 

Eph 3:21  to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

The Speed of Dominion in New England

Serious numbers of migrants arrived in Massachusetts from 1630 - 1640. Roughly 21,000. By 1700 they had become 91,000. Their immediate priorities: having families, building farms, forming towns, and building institutions Old England never developed on local levels. But the new Americans didn’t just reproduce the country they left. They built institutions England didn’t yet have.

Year 1 — a seagoing vessel launched at Medford, 4 July 1631. The shipwrights had been sent out in 1629, ahead of the fleet.
Year 4 — representative government. Elected deputies sitting in the General Court.
Year 6 — Harvard. £400 voted for “a schoale or colledge.”
Year 8 — a printing press, the only one in British North America. Glover died on the voyage out; his widow Elizabeth moved the operation to Cambridge and got it running.
Year 10 — the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in America.
Year 11 — the Body of Liberties, read aloud at every General Court.
Year 12 — the 1642 law: every ...

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