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A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States. Why, then, the hysteria that has suddenly gripped this city? The triggering event was the announcement by GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. Despite Leader Mitch McConnell’s plea, Hawley said he intended to challenge
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“Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel’s 2019 conclusion to over a decade of storytelling, earned over $2.7 billion at the global box office. It was a worldwide sensation. Recently, however, Disney’s superhero brand has had trouble at the multiplex. You know that feeling when you stay too long at a party? And you realize, “Wait, I’m not supposed to
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In her forthcoming witty—often snarky—book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, Peachy Keenan writes of her group of acquaintances, “Because I have fewer than eight children, I am something of a lightweight.” She then recounts the following incident: “A friend my age recently welcomed her twelfth baby. (That’s a one followed
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U.S. taxpayers are familiar with marriage penalty, but it is not merely a problem facing American families. In the Netherlands, a family with a stay-at-home mother could pay more than 560 percent more in taxes than an identical family making the exact same income. Ironically, the Dutch tax code treats families with equal incomes in vastly disparate
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Will and Ariel Durant are famous for their magisterial 11-volume survey of human history titled The Story of Civilization. After spending fifty years of studying and reflecting on the history of mankind, they are at the very least an interesting authority to consult on the matter. In The Lessons of History—written after they completed their
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A renowned forensic pathologist said Wednesday that the evidence in the case of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein strongly suggests that he was strangled to death. Back in August, a New York medical examiner officially ruled Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail cell a suicide by hanging. Dr. Michael Baden, an 85-year-old
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