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  • Families with Stay-At-Home Moms Pay 5-times More Taxes in This Nation

    Families with Stay-At-Home Moms Pay 5-times More Taxes in This Nation0

    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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  • Famed Historian Explains How a Civilization Collapses

    Famed Historian Explains How a Civilization Collapses0

    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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  • Famed Forensic Pathologist: Evidence Points to Homicide Rather Than Suicide in Epstein Case

    Famed Forensic Pathologist: Evidence Points to Homicide Rather Than Suicide in Epstein Case0

    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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  • Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?

    Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?0

    Are we getting dumber? Apparently so. In a June 2018 issue of Newsweek, Scottie Andrew reported the following: “A Norwegian study published Monday found a seven-point dip in IQ test scores per generation among men born from 1962 to 1991. The results suggest a reversal in the Flynn effect, an observed increase in IQ scores throughout

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  • Falling in Love Across the Political Divide

    Falling in Love Across the Political Divide6

    Growing up in a conservative family in California, I was used to being the odd one out. But that didn’t calm my nerves when the beautiful woman I’d asked to dinner started questioning my beliefs. “So, you’re pretty much a conservative,” she said, eyebrows raised in surprise. “Does that extend to abortion?” I got a

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  • Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID

    Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID0

    This year has brought us a brutal lesson in the truth of the phrase “Ideas Have Consequences,” popularized by political philosopher Richard Weaver in 1948. Weaver argued that the rise of relativism was damaging Western civilization, eroding our abilities to use reason and logic for problem solving. Such loss of reason and logic have been

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