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  • If Middle Eastern Nations Are Stabilizing, Then Why Do the Refugees Keep Coming?

    If Middle Eastern Nations Are Stabilizing, Then Why Do the Refugees Keep Coming?0

    Over the past five years, a quiet humanitarian crisis has been erupting in South America. Beginning in 2009, but especially since 2015, almost four million people, or one in 10, have left Venezuela. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro’s regime are behind this steady and sure collapse of the Venezuelan economy and society. Yet as criticism

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  • If kids can’t cross streets safely, why do we offer them sex changes?

    If kids can’t cross streets safely, why do we offer them sex changes?0

    The very latest research by developmental psychologists shows that American children are not competent at crossing busy streets until they are at least 14. This news was important enough to be included in the daily briefing for members of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In an article in a professional journal called Journal of

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  • If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?

    If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?0

    Should we abandon arguments for abortion if they also permit infanticide? Two US-based academics say “yes”. In a new paper in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, philosophers David and Rose Hershenov suggest that non-conscious fetuses and minimally conscious neonates are morally equivalent in their fundamental interests, namely, their shared interest in “healthy development”. Insofar as

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  • If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?

    If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?0

    According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (“Mortality in the United States, 2017“), “Life expectancy for the U.S. population declined to 78.6 years in 2017.” If accurate, a decline in life expectancy is a cause for concern because, since the mid nineteenth century, we’ve come to expect life expectancy in Europe

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  • If Gender is ‘Fluid,’ Why are Gender Reveal Parties So Popular?

    If Gender is ‘Fluid,’ Why are Gender Reveal Parties So Popular?0

    It’s definitely a girl. Definitely. That’s what family and friends of Matt Ostergaard and Adrianna Zbik learned last week when Ostergard arranged for the 187-foot-tall SkyWheel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to be lit up in pink for his child’s “gender reveal.” Amazingly, this was not the first Ferris wheel gender reveal. In the spring,

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  • If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting

    If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting0

    On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green

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