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  • Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children

    Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children1

    Are you the parent of a young child? If so, I’m willing to bet that some well-intentioned person has sent you a YouTube video called Child Abduction (Social Experiment). I’ve been sent this video 5 times over the past several years, the most recent instance being last week. The video goes thus: a guy named

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  • Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers

    Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers0

    “We read a lot of literature in high school,” a first-year student explained to me. “And that’s why I don’t like it.” When I asked her what she had read and how it had been taught, she answered: “‘Huckleberry Finn.’ It shows that slavery is wrong.” If you didn’t know that already, I thought, you

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  • Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander

    Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander0

    Hatred has been having a boom time. No insult cuts us more deeply than “you’re a hater”. It means that you are intransigent, intolerant, bigoted and probably a secret nose-picker. “You’re a hater” (or its close cousin, “you’re a bigot”) shuts down all dialogue and turns the alleged hater into a pariah. It was not

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  • Four Questions James Comey Actually Answered in Senate Hearing

    Four Questions James Comey Actually Answered in Senate Hearing0

    Former FBI Director James Comey took questions from a Senate committee for almost four hours Wednesday, but had the same answers for many of them. Comey, who President Donald Trump fired in May 2017, fielded questions remotely by video link primarily about the FBI’s Russia-Trump investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” before the Justice Department named a

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  • Four Movies to Fight Socialism

    Four Movies to Fight Socialism0

    While celebrating America’s 250th birthday, an astonishing dichotomy was in play. The Declaration of Independence described “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” as unalienable human rights bestowed by a Creator, not a government. Yet the past few years have also witnessed the growing electoral strength of Democratic Socialism, now a major force in the

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  • Four Keys to Understanding History of Super Tuesday

    Four Keys to Understanding History of Super Tuesday0

    • March 3, 2020

    Super Tuesday is typically the closest thing to a national primary election in the United States. It got the “super” name with as many as 24 state contests and as few as three in a single day.  On March 3 this year, it falls somewhere in between as 14 states and American Samoa hold presidential

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