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No Moral to This Story

by Marybeth Hicks November 11, 2011

Halloween came and went, but Marion Salmon Hedges wasn’t able to hand out the hundreds of dollars worth of candy she purchased for the underprivileged children who annually visit her Manhattan neighborhood.
Instead, she has spent the past 10 days…

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“Occupy Wall Street”: Whiners of the US, Unite

by Marybeth Hicks November 7, 2011

If my email is any indication, the great divide in our nation is not between the haves and the have-nots, but between the literate and the folks who never learned the difference between there, their, and they’re.
Trust me, they’re…

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Gay Agenda Highjacks Bullying Crisis

by Marybeth Hicks November 2, 2011

If there’s one thing virtually everyone can agree on, it’s that bullying is bad.
In fact, a recent survey commissioned by Care.com, a caregiver referral company, revealed that bullying is the No. 1 concern of parents of school-aged children —…

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Hey, Protesters — Occupy Reality!

by Marybeth Hicks October 21, 2011

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”
As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” — now known as…

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The Fall of the Occupiers

by Marybeth Hicks October 14, 2011

I hate to say it, but watching the various YouTube videos of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests and reading accounts of protesters’ goals and “demands” prompts me to shake my head with a resigned “I told you so.”
I’ve been…

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The 99 Percent’s “Top 13″

by Marybeth Hicks October 7, 2011

If you’ve been too busy holding down a job (or two), juggling the demands of a busy family, engaging in community service, and occasionally taking the wife and children out for a pizza on a Saturday night, you may not…

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Indoctrination 101

by Marybeth Hicks September 30, 2011

Barely enough time has passed for bologna sandwiches to begin rotting in school lockers, yet the 2011-2012 school year is shaping up to be one of the stinkiest ever, if we’re measuring in episodes of putrid political correctness and radicalism.…

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