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The ability to 'keep on believing' is an important lesson during these difficult times. Yet, ultimately, masks can’t hide our dreams and wishes.I learned an important lesson during three days at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, EPCOT, and Magic Kingdom last week: Masks are not magical. Yes, every guest to Walt Disney World is required to wear a mask (I had to wear a traditional surgical mask until spending $8.99 on a lovely Minnie-themed mask). Every guest we saw — from children tucked into their strollers to seven-year-olds dressed up as Snow White — wore masks. Cast members operating the rides, serving...

Right now is a pivotal time for unborn babies across the United States. $60 million was defunded from Planned Parenthood, we won victories for sidewalk counselors who counsel young women outside of abortion clinics, and we stood up for nurses forced to participate in abortions against their conscience. Despite our victories, the abortion industry is expanding their efforts both in the United States and abroad. Barbaric late-term abortion laws have been passed in New York and are spreading internationally, Kansas lifted its ban on dismemberment abortions, and Planned Parenthood has made it clear they aim to “double down on abortion.”...

What’s the first thing you felt when you set eyes on your baby for the first time? I suspect my emotions were no different from yours. You probably marveled at what you created — and then experienced an overwhelming feeling of love and responsibility. I presume gender roles were not on your radar screen. But, of course, you’re not Peggy Orenstein, author of the new book Cinderella Ate My Daughter. Her feelings as a new mother were vastly different from normal people’s. There’s that first moment when you hold your little girl in your arms, and you look down at...

Before long the Wicked Witches of the North have cast a spell on their Little Pretties. These young women soon graduate from college believing that women are paid less for the same work, that women were routinely excluded from medical research, and a multitude of other tragedies that have befallen womankind. Victimization has become a mainstay of their self-identity.