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  • Cicero’s 5 Steps to a Good Conversation

    Cicero’s 5 Steps to a Good Conversation0

    We’ve all been there. We’re hanging out with friends, mingling after church, or attending a networking event, yet despite our best efforts, conversation falls flat. This can happen for many reasons, but generally, the two primary issues are either that our conversation partners drop the ball, or that we ourselves can’t think of anything to

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  • Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government

    Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government2

    Ancient philosophers didn’t like democracy. Cicero, the great Roman defender of natural rights, is a case-in-point. So as Americans gear up for another presidential election, it’s worth taking a look at his reasons for rejecting popular government. Politics played an outsized role in Cicero’s life, so it’s not surprising that he wrote and spoke a

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  • CIA Claims Russia Has Pervy Dirt on Trump. But Did They Get Trolled?

    CIA Claims Russia Has Pervy Dirt on Trump. But Did They Get Trolled?0

    We’ve officially entered the Twilight Zone. Tuesday night, several media outlets opted to run with the details surrounding unsubstantiated claims that Russia has (gross) dirt on president-elect Donald Trump. The claims, which come from an addendum to a CIA report compiled by a former British intelligence officer, assert that Moscow has been supporting Trump for

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  • CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy

    CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy0

    CIA analysts have been reading Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre for years. The reasons might astound you.  In a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gabriel Rockhill, a Philosophy professor at Villanova University, explains why the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a longstanding interest in post-World War

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  • Church ‘Marketing’? Sales Tactics Might Diminish Christianity.

    Church ‘Marketing’? Sales Tactics Might Diminish Christianity.1

    The New Conference of the Old German Baptist Brethren, a conservative church denomination with 37 congregations nationwide, is struggling to retain its congregants. Young members, especially, are questioning denominational standards, sometimes moving away from their childhood community. The church’s intensely conservative principles seem to play a strong part in driving younger members away. Though church

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  • Chuck Schumer Under Fire After NYC Terrorist Attack for Role in ‘Diversity Visa Lottery’

    Chuck Schumer Under Fire After NYC Terrorist Attack for Role in ‘Diversity Visa Lottery’0

    • November 1, 2017

    President Donald Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., early Wednesday for his role in launching the program that reportedly allowed an extremist onto American soil. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, a green card holder from Uzbekistan, mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in a rented truck Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan before crashing into a school bus. He

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