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  • Why Don’t Conservatives Just Take Their Kids Out of Public Schools?

    Why Don’t Conservatives Just Take Their Kids Out of Public Schools?1

    Conservatives have many ideological complaints about the current public education system: the way it indoctrinates their children, the way it teaches them history, the way it institutionalizes them. Their most recent issue (which, arguably, many liberal parents have a problem with, too) is over the federal government’s mandate that a transgender boy at a Chicago-area

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  • Why Don’t We Have a Capital Day?

    Why Don’t We Have a Capital Day?0

    Labor Day, according to the US Department of Labor is “dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers” and as a “national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” Holidays should be deployed to remind the populace of that which normally escapes public notice.

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  • Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival

    Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival0

    If the current political campaigns have revealed anything about Americans, it is that they loathe changing their minds. Although a few people may vote for a different political party this year, because the two frontrunners struggle with likeability, most Americans will hold fast to their personal values and beliefs—at least on the big issues, such

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  • Why Doing Nothing Changes Everything

    Why Doing Nothing Changes Everything0

    Recently, I was marooned on a roadside where there was—I shudder to say it—no internet connection. I was waiting for my wife to pick me up and had only my own thoughts and the scenery with which to beguile time. The scenery was quite spectacular: ancient Wisconsin bluffs burgeoning in the background wearing the shimmering

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  • Why Does the Federal Government Fail So Miserably Most of the Time?

    Why Does the Federal Government Fail So Miserably Most of the Time?0

    6.5 M people with active social security numbers are 112 or older.   When I spotted this headline in the Washington Times, and misinterpreted it, my heart took a bounce.   First came astonishment and joy. With that many men and women living to be 112 or older, and surely many more living at least

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  • Why Does the Battery in My iPhone Drain So Fast?

    Why Does the Battery in My iPhone Drain So Fast?0

    Why do batteries die? And, why can they only be recharged so many times before they won’t hold a useful amount of charge? My young son asked me about that years ago when his battery-powered toy car stopped moving, wondering about what he called an “everlasting battery.” And this same question has probably crossed the

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