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  • Ignoring Boy Rape

    Ignoring Boy Rape0

    • September 22, 2015

    The New York Times and other media outlets are reporting on a disturbing story about Afghan allies raping boys, even on American bases, and American soldiers being punished for speaking out against the practice. Here’s a revolting bit of the story: “‘At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything

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  • Ignoring Adult Porn Is a Disaster for Our Children

    Ignoring Adult Porn Is a Disaster for Our Children1

    In today’s sex-soaked media, it was gratifying to see a leading champion of unrestricted sexual freedom, the New York Times, going bonkers about the wickedness of pornography. The headline summarises its graphic, scrupulously researched and highly disturbing article: “The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?” The figures it cites are

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  • Ignored: Poor Whites

    Ignored: Poor Whites0

    From the Miami Herald’s reporter Leonard Pitts, Jr. comes this revelation: “As it turns out, our deeply racialized view of poverty bears no resemblance to reality. Though it’s true that African Americans are disproportionately likely to live below the poverty line, it is also true that the vast majority of those in poverty are white:

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  • Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America

    Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America1

    Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught

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  • IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking

    IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking0

    Our two national parties had great expectations about the findings of the Department of Justice’s Inspector General concerning the surveillance operation carried out by the FBI against Donald Trump’s campaign staff. What came out of this newly released report won’t fully satisfy either side. The Democrats were hoping that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report would

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  • If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One

    If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One1

    “I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.”  When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said

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