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  • Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?

    Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?0

    • November 22, 2019

    How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four, because even if you call it a leg, it’s still a tail. – Abraham Lincoln P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Common sense tells us the

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  • Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?

    Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?0

    Every few months it seems that another story pops up concerning some child’s confusing Common Core math homework. For examples, check out the three famous ones below:     As authors Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick explain in The Atlantic, homework questions such as these are an attempt to have children understand the concepts behind

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  • Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?

    Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?3

    “This is the most pro-family thing that the Legislature has done,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she signed to legalise commercial surrogacy. Every American state has its own laws on surrogacy; until this year, a strict ban was in place in Michigan. Now it has joined the majority of states that permit some form of commercial surrogacy. The only

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  • Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?

    Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?0

    Ancient Greece represents a time of almost unparalleled intellectual creativity in world history. It had Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Solon, Herodotus, Archimedes, and Hippocrates.   But according to many authors, what Ancient Greece did not have during its Golden Age was an obsession with comfort. And this fact may have played a large role in

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  • Is College Really Getting Easier?

    Is College Really Getting Easier?1

    Have you ever seen those videos of kids learning they made it into the college of their dreams? A lot of ecstatic jumping and hollering is involved, which brings a smile to even the grumpiest of faces. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel a twinge of unease for these students. Will they waste four years

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  • Is Clinton’s Pay-to-Play the Natural Consequence of Big Government?

    Is Clinton’s Pay-to-Play the Natural Consequence of Big Government?0

    Hillary Clinton has been taking heat for her relationship with the Clinton Foundation. Did individuals and firms making large donations to the Foundation, or paying large speaking or consulting fees to Bill Clinton, get preferred access to Ms. Clinton as Secretary of State? Is there a revolving door between the Clinton campaign and the Foundation’s

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