Penny Thoughts: The Necessity of American Exceptionalism
The intellectual fraud of such racially motivated works as “Critical Race Theory,” the New York Times “Project 1619” and books,
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Author: Arthur G. Ogden, Ph.D.
Penny Thoughts: Constitutional history is the real history of America
Most Americans are not familiar with the history of cases which have been decided by the United States Supreme Court. Those
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Penny Thoughts: How Filters Frame History
We dedicated pedagogists have a tendency either to trust history in its entirety or to dismiss it in its totality. It
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Penny Thoughts: The aim of education is to develop thinking
America education theorists have rendered a variety of notions over the history of this great nation. After John Dewey visited Lenin
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Penny Thoughts: A Perspective of Election 2020
Penny Thoughts: A Perspective of Election 2020 Reading through the Democratic Party’s Platform for 2020 reveals that there are some
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Penny Thoughts: What has Happened to American Meritocracy
Those of us who were raised in America immediately after World War II thrived in an entirely different cultural and
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Penny Thoughts: We Need Better
by Benjamin B. Ogden, Honors College, University of Southern Mississippi 2020 has been crazy so far, there’s no denying that.
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Penny Thoughts: Campaign of Hate/Politics of Fear
In the midst of the infomercial, which is the current Democratic Party National Convention, taking the four hours to actually
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Penny Thoughts: Freedom Plagues America
Since the murder of George Floyd, we have witnessed the great destruction of many large cities in America through the
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Penny Thoughts: Considerations of a “New Normal”
The COVID-19 fiasco has given rise to a description of our culture which has been disconcerting from the onset of
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Penny Thoughts: The Good Teacher
Good teachers are born, not made! Having come from a family of educators and having spent my life as a
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Penny Thoughts: Are we Near the RIP for Our American Experiment
As the Ogden Horde enjoyed the festivities of this year’s celebration of our Nation’s independence from a tyrannical monarchy, I
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Penny Thoughts: Free Will Preserves the Republic
About ten days ago we celebrated the 244th declaration of our independence from Great Britain, which many nonchalantly call, “July Fourth”. It always presents a good time to recall one of the most elemental principles our Founders believed as they sought to establish a new Nation.
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Penny Thoughts: Life is a Constant Laboratory for Morality
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy
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Penny Thoughts: Education and American Freedom
I am one of those Americans who gets all geared up for July Fourth, and even though I have had relatives who, in the past, referred to it as a “Yankee Party”, it engenders great pride in me as we celebrate our Independence from Great Britain. I still love sitting down and watching James Cagney play George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, and yes, I still cry when I hear the U.S. Marine Corps Band playing the final stanzas of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
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Penny Thoughts: Marriage Licenses and Government Excess
Did you ever wonder why couples could not be married without an official state sanction? That “sanction” came in the form of the vaunted “marriage license”, which, somehow, became not just a customary step for couples wishing to share their lives together forever – it became law.
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Penny Thoughts: Good Lessons Stand the Test of Time
Teachers often wonder if the lessons they so laboriously plan and skillfully deliver will render any tangible results. The end of this 2019-2020 school year was abruptly halted due to the COVID-19 scare. This fact prompted teachers to dig deeply into their folders and recollections of teaching tools to continue their craft with their students in far different delivery modes and platforms.
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Penny Thoughts: Props for Our Cops
It is probably our atmosphere and world view here in the Deep South but, as I was engaged in a phone discussion with a fraternity brother of mine a while ago about the attitudes some of the Yankees (Northeasterners) and Californians (West Coast Libs) express towards their policer officers, the profound differences of our two regions became more pronounced.
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