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  • Australia’s Gun Laws and Homicide Show Correlation Isn’t Causation

    Australia’s Gun Laws and Homicide Show Correlation Isn’t Causation0

    In the wake of the March 15 New Zealand shootings, advocates for new gun restrictions in New Zealand have pointed to Australia as “proof” that if national governments adopt gun restrictions like those of Australia’s National Firearms Agreement, then homicides will go into steep decline. “Exhibit A” is usually the fact that homicides have decreased in Australia since

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  • Australia’s Gun Control Model Is Useless to the U.S.

    Australia’s Gun Control Model Is Useless to the U.S.0

    In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, a great number of people have laid the blame on America’s relatively lax gun laws and alleged unwillingness to adopt “common sense” gun control. In particular, gun control advocates tell us America could eliminate mass shootings if only

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  • Australia Discovers that Its Homeschool Students are Far Above Average

    Australia Discovers that Its Homeschool Students are Far Above Average0

    Homeschooling and its high level of success has become a highly-accepted fact in the U.S. in recent years. Other countries, however, are not as familiar with the concept, and thus view the practice with a wary eye. Such has been the case in Australia, particularly in the state of New South Wales (NSW). According to

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  • Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie

    Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie1

    Based on a variety of discussions on Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook page about extramarital affairs, the consensus seemed to be that affairs are still considered disgraceful moral behavior (vs. other behaviors that have grown more acceptable over time) because they involve a breach of trust. Many argue that we live in a decadent society, but apparently, that society

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  • Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation

    Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation0

    On May 4th, 1945, future British actress and Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn celebrated her 16th birthday. Although a girl’s 16th birthday is often a special occasion, turning 16 was even more special for Hepburn, for the day also marked the liberation of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands—the Nazi-occupied Netherlands under which Hepburn had lived since 1939.  The

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  • Attorney General Sees No Case for Obstruction as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia

    Attorney General Sees No Case for Obstruction as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia0

    It’s no longer only President Donald Trump and his allies saying “no collusion.” Special counsel Robert Mueller has reached the same conclusion that the Trump campaign did not conspire with Moscow to gain advantage in the 2016 election. Mueller also did not uncover actionable evidence in his 22-month probe that Trump sought to obstruct justice

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