rebelling against low expectations

ArchiveNovember 2005

Teens In The News: Michael Sessions

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Two weeks ago The Rebelution covered the impressive “rise of Michael Sessions” into the national spotlight following his apparent victory in the Hillsdale, MI mayor’s race. However, we updated that post with the news that Michael’s victory was pending a recount. Today we would ask all of you to join The Rebelution as we congratulate 18-year-old Michael Sessions on his...

David Ludwig and Kara Borden

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Make sure you read the most recent update made at the end of this post (updated Saturday, November 26th, 4:15 P.M. CST). Big hat tip to fellow blogger and rebelutionary, Agent Tim, for bringing this story to my attention. After a frenzied, weeklong media blitz by television, radio, newspapers, and blogs, nearly anyone who regularly reads/watches/listens to the news will recognize the names of...

The Rebelutionary Entrepeneur: An Inspiration

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Several weeks ago, our good friend, and fellow blogger, Caleb Hayden, made an excellent post about young men and entrepreneurism. In response, a reader of both his blog, and ours, sent the following email, which we have been given permission to re-post it here on The Rebelution: Caleb, I am writing to comment on one of your recent blog posts, entitled Starting Young. Although I scarcely know you...

Paris Youth Riots

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With torched cars, violence, and unrest filling the streets of Paris, Louis-Vincent Gave provided some particularly insightful analysis in his article, “The Arab Street Erupts: Why Paris and Why Now?” In the article Gave outlines the failure of government schools to assimilate poor and diverse ethnic groups into French society and persuasively points to the elimination of the military...

Jiffy N’ Lou: Installment #106

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In response to a concern voiced by one of our readers (which can be followed in the comment section), and after prayerful consideration + discussion with family and friends, we have decided that the Jiffy N’ Lou comic we just posted was particularly ineffective in communicating a positive message and have therefore removed it. However, we also recognize that there is a simple difference of...

Kidults: Ruining Our Lives With Fun

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As an encouragement to our new readers to take advantage of our “past series” on the sidebar, we post the following installment from our series “Rise of the Kidult.” Enjoy. Moe is a stereotypical American teenager who enjoys multi-annual vacations, has a computer and television in his room, and spends 32+ hours per week playing video games and watching television. Not only...

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