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JOECKS: How to help boys

It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls. A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, "You're ...

ERICKSON: Noting, not urging

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...

HARROP: Sonny Rollins knew not to die young

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...

PARKER: It’s on us to choose how to use our freedom

Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The Wealth of Nations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ...