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Sundays are church and more family time. Sunday evenings I try to organize myself for the week ahead.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Time
Myself
Family
Try
Church
Sunday
Sundays
More
Week
Organize
Evenings
Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Sometimes
Cause
Programs
Dream
Attain
Lead
Takes
Well-Intentioned
Forget
American
Dependency
American Dream
Us
The Real World' perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Culture
World
Correct
Perfectly
Real
Exhilarating
Politically
Politically Correct
The Real World
Real World
Center
Pop
Pop Culture
Multicultural
Captured
Zeitgeist
Phenomenon
When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young bride to raise 15 kids, he did it to give his children a better life.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Life
Work
Better
Young
Settled
Mines
Kids
Give
Better Life
He
His
American
Did
Southwest
Where
Children
Grandfather
Bride
Eventually
Raise
When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
College
Sister
Young
President
State
State University
Secretary
Arizona
Republicans
Her
University
Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted with hundreds of angry protesters hell-bent on destroying what should have been a bi-partisan celebration of the 'peaceful transition of power'.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Angry
Husband
Power
Baby
Our
Hundreds
Destroying
George
Were
George Bush
Been
Celebration
Transition
Bush
Confronted
Inaugurated
Interestingly
Should
Peaceful
Her
Indeed, many immigrants do not even desire U.S. citizenship, preferring a work visa that would allow them to work seasonally and to legally cross the border into their home country as needed.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Work
Home
Country
Visa
Indeed
Immigrants
Border
Would
Citizenship
Cross
Allow
Legally
Them
Many
Even
Desire
Needed
Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
School
Year
Oppose
Own
Other
Indeed
Cost
More
Charter
Charter Schools
Institutions
Schools
Operate
Make
Private
Hispanic
Families
Than
Send
Children
Choice
Who
Many
Harder
Elites
Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Competition
Will
Sister
Faster
Run
Runs
Parent
He
House
Himself
His
Child
Any
Races
Ask
Works
We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Success
People
Enemy
Poverty
Other
System
Unsafe
Performing
Know
Most
Schools
Vulnerable
Educational
Mobility
Privileged
Offers
Upward
Upward Mobility
Apathy
Poor
Choice
Traps
Even
Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us and start empowering our families with choice, with freedom, and personal responsibility.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Education
Freedom
Class
Responsibility
Minority
Parents
First
Our
Wealthy
First Class
Schools
Identifying
Empowering
Providing
Families
Personal
Just
Stop
Personal Responsibility
Capable
Low-Income
Us
Choice
Start
Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Work
Government
Together
Work Hard
Ought
Punish
Stay
Policies
Government Policies
Encourage
Families
Improve
Them
Hard
Lives
My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Business
Age
Shoes
Own
Young
Local
Resourceful
Entrepreneurial
Tender
He
Arizona
Town
Learned
His
Shining
Up
Young Age
Children
Grew
Poor
Twelve
Bars
Dad
Starting
Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Every
Dream
American
American Dream
Shot
Deserves
Every American
When Hispanics start businesses at two times the rate of the average population, it seems to me that fewer regulations and dictates from Washington will do more to encourage start-ups, hiring, and progress up the economic ladder.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Me
Progress
Will
Ladder
Rate
Seems
More
Economic
Hiring
Encourage
Hispanics
Up
Dictates
Times
Fewer
Average
Regulations
Businesses
Washington
Population
Start
Two
Indeed, one of the least-talked-about dangers of our ever-expanding entitlement culture is that it threatens the viability of these necessary programs for those who genuinely need and use them as a bridge to a better life.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Life
Culture
Entitlement
Better
Programs
Our
Indeed
Those
Dangers
Threatens
Better Life
Genuinely
Viability
Them
Use
Who
Bridge
Necessary
Need
In their zeal to show compassion, liberal community activists are quick to offer government handouts and, in the process, convey the message that people are incapable of making it on their own.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Government
People
Compassion
Own
Community
Liberal
Message
Making
Quick
Offer
Process
Convey
Incapable
Show
Zeal
Activists
The voices of economic freedom, personal responsibility, and self-determination are virtually nonexistent in Hispanic communities and media.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Freedom
Responsibility
Virtually
Economic
Voices
Economic Freedom
Self-Determination
Nonexistent
Hispanic
Personal
Personal Responsibility
Communities
Media
The idea that the Hispanic vote hinges on one issue - immigration - is the most ridiculous and patronizing notion.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Vote
Immigration
Idea
Most
Hinges
Issue
Hispanic
Patronizing
Notion
Ridiculous
Most charter schools admit students by random lottery, making it impossible for them to pick only the best.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Best
Impossible
Random
Admit
Only
Charter
Charter Schools
Students
Pick
Most
Schools
Making
Lottery
Them
Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Generation
Parents
Extraordinarily
Ought
Everywhere
Tried
Charter
Charter Schools
Importance
Schools
Sure
Understand
Making
Proven
Been
Successful
Next
Grandparents
Next Generation
Nearly
Well, being a mom is the best job in the world.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Best
Mom
World
Job
Well
Well-Being
Being
It's so fun for kids to dye eggs. But on Holy Thursday, we make a special batch of dyed eggs. Instead of pastel, the eggs we dye on Holy Thursday are dyed only red to symbolize the blood of Jesus.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Batch
Kids
Only
Instead
Red
Thursday
Make
Blood
Eggs
Dye
Dyed
Holy
Special
Fun
Jesus
Symbolize
Before I had my first child, I thought women had to decide between being a mom and a fulfilling, successful professional life. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Life
Mom
Women
Thought
First
Before
Had
Wrong
Between
First Child
Very
Child
Being
Decide
Successful
Fulfilling
Professional
Professional Life
All kids love to color - even the older ones, and it can be a very relaxing activity for everyone.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Love
Older
Everyone
Relaxing
Kids
Color
Very
Even
Activity
I make no apologies for not being very outdoorsy and for not really enjoying the cold.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Cold
Make
Very
Being
Really
Apology
Enjoying
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