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Patrice Lewis is a freelance writer whose latest book is "The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life more Livable." She is co-founder (with her husband) of a home woodcraft business. The Lewises live on 20 acres in north Idaho with their two homeschooled children, assorted livestock, and a shop that overflows into the house with depressing regularity. Visit her blog at www.rural-revolution.com.
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On raping cows and feminist idiocy

by Patrice Lewis -- Once again, a "scientific" paper has been published from a university academic containing questionable conclusions. But this one caught the attention of the excellent news outlet Campus Reform more…

Climate-change homesteaders

by Patrice Lewis -- There are, I'm realizing, two types of people in America: those who believe in man-made climate change, and those who don't. Climate change, of course, indisputably has been more…

Why the mass shootings will continue

by Patrice Lewis -- As America reels in the wake of three mass shootings over two weekends (Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton), the predictable screams for gun control emerged from the left even more…

Calling us 'racist'? Bring it on!

by Patrice Lewis -- Once upon a racist time, a little racist gender-neutral girl skipped through the racist forest until she came to a racist cottage in a racist clearing. "I wonder more…

A modest proposal: The true Green New Deal

by Patrice Lewis -- As many readers know, we live on a small homestead farm in north Idaho where we are engaged in a long-term experiment of food self-sufficiency. We've had quite more…

Why the left hates this nation

by Patrice Lewis -- Have you ever wondered what's behind the left's undisguised and unrestrained hatred of the founding documents of our nation (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence)? I mean, more…

Economics for Dummies (and my lefty readers)

by Patrice Lewis -- "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. more…

Why America is in such despair

by Patrice Lewis -- How many of you remember the classic movie "Fiddler on the Roof"? In the opening song, "Tradition," the character Tevye explains how the Jews have balanced a sometimes more…

How feminism creates deficient mothers

by Patrice Lewis -- I have two treasured dolls from my childhood. These aren't collector's items meant to sit on a shelf and look pretty. Instead, they're battered and worn from many more…