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  • Former Clinton Administration Member: ‘Cruz is Even More Dangerous Than Trump’

    Former Clinton Administration Member: ‘Cruz is Even More Dangerous Than Trump’0

    • March 7, 2016

    Over the past few months, many have been sounding apocalyptic alarms with the rise of Donald Trump. But in a recent post on his website, Robert Reich—a Democrat—argued that Ted Cruz is actually “more dangerous” than Donald Trump. For those who don’t know, Reich has served in the administrations of three presidents. His latest stint

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  • Former CIA Boss John Brennan Tweets Fake Lincoln Quote, Won’t Take It Down

    Former CIA Boss John Brennan Tweets Fake Lincoln Quote, Won’t Take It Down0

    It’s become a running joke that Abraham Lincoln didn’t actually say half the things attributed to him. Lincoln historians will tell you this phenomenon began almost as soon as the sixteenth president’s life was claimed by John Wilkes Booth, if not before. Yet the problem has only grown more acute in the internet age. The

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  • Former CEO of McDonald’s: $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost Jobs

    Former CEO of McDonald’s: $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost Jobs0

    Ed Rensi, the former president of McDonald’s USA, wrote an article that appeared in Forbes recently in which he argued that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could cost about a million jobs in limited service restaurants.     Rensi, who worked at McDonald’s for three decades before he became Chief Executive Officer,

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  • Former Atheist Explains How Rationality, Not Emotion, Encourages Religious Belief

    Former Atheist Explains How Rationality, Not Emotion, Encourages Religious Belief0

    I recently ran across an interview with author Stephen Asma in The Irish Times. Although an atheist, Asma is a rather unique atheist because he believes religion is necessary, a fact evidenced in his recent book Why We Need Religion. According to Asma, a philosophy professor, religion does not make sense rationally, but it makes

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  • Forgotten: What happened after the Doolittle Raid.

    Forgotten: What happened after the Doolittle Raid.0

    In the early days of World War II as the Japanese advanced their “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” through the military subjugation of an incredible number of peoples, islands, and nations, they turned their attention to the United States. In what was hoped to be a knock-out blow to the United States, the Japanese struck

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  • Forgetting Self, Finding Happiness

    Forgetting Self, Finding Happiness7

    A while back I started an experiment of smiling brightly at perfect strangers while out and about doing my daily routine. Knowing that times are difficult, my intention was to bring a little joy into random people’s lives, while also causing them to wonder where my joy came from. Admittedly, I don’t always practice this

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