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God's 4-H Club

Most Americans have heard of 4-H (Head, Heart, Hands, and Health), which is a youth development program administered under the auspices of both the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I recall they had a 4-H club in the high school I attended in my home town in Central Illinois, which, like 4-H clubs all over America, provided educational opportunities for young people aged 8–18 related to agriculture, healthy living, science and technology, and civic engagement.

Well, that sounds terrific...especially in a highly agricultural area like Central Illinois. But my oh-so-cool friends and I had absolutely zero interest in what seemed to us like a total snoozer—a boring club full of nerdy farm girls.

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Separation Anxiety

I've been teaching English in Taiwan since 1992, and in my early years here I worked for a woman who operated a branch of a chain of language schools where I taught children's classes in addition to adult conversation classes. She also ran a private kindergarten where I was regularly pressed into service teaching children between the ages of three and six.

One rite of passage I witnessed regularly occurred when a very young child was left at the kindergarten by his or her mother for the first time. Many children, although they may have been a bit timid or anxious initially, got through it in fine fashion. By lunchtime they would be running around and playing with the other kids, and seemed none the worse for the experience.

For others, however, it was a very different story. Some children would be so traumatized by their perceived abandonment that they would scream and wail for hours on end at volumes belying their diminutive size, impervious to any attempts by teachers or other children to interact with or comfort them in any way. In some cases, this continued until mom returned at day's end to pick the child up, only to continue unabated the next day. I remember one little girl who screamed all day for two solid weeks—I think she finally just wore herself out.

Sooner or later, the kid finally begins to realize that (a) crying accomplishes nothing, (b) the people at the kindergarten are nice, (c) there are some cool toys to play with and some fun activities to be part of, and (d) that yes, mom really will come back.

I suppose it's a natural part of growing up.

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6/23/2026 — From the "Good Riddance" Department...

I heard some refreshing news the other day that lifted my spirits and brightened my day a bit:

Tucker Carlson is leaving the Republican Party!

Of course, they way he framed it was intended to make it sound as if his abandonment of the party signaled the end of all things good and right in America, but I'm gonna have to disagree. Why?

Because that's just about the best news I've heard all year.

What is unknown and unknowable to people like Tucker Carlson is that it's people like Tucker Carlson who are precisely the problem with the Republican Party, in my humble estimation. And frankly I wish every one of the same ilk would pack up and follow suit, to be perfectly honest. They will not be missed...nor will Tucker.

Under a paper-thin veneer of Christianity, Tucker Carlson and others like him venomously attack Israel and its leaders in every way possible, and they scorn and pummel anyone who deigns to show love and support for the Jewish people and for Israel—which we are commanded to do in God's Word.

Naturally, Tucker fails to grasp that because as a CINO he is completely ignorant of what the Bible says and teaches to begin with. He is a raging anti-Semite and wears his hatred of Israel and the Jewish people like a badge of honor, and has seemingly made it his life's calling to lure other believers down the same broad, unscriptural road.

Don't go down it.

Literally the only words I can think of to say are "Good riddance!"

I will say, however, that my prayer is that someday Tucker will come to a sufficient understanding of God's Word to realize how profoundly wrong he is, come to an understanding of the truth of the gospel, and maybe even come to an understanding that he is doing even more damage to this country than the Democrats are doing—he's just working from the other side of the fence by foolishly dragging God and His (radically misunderstood) Word into the mix. And sad to say, it's bound to work on a few.

Just don't be one of them.

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