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  • Are E-Scooters a Menace or Needed Innovation?

    Are E-Scooters a Menace or Needed Innovation?0

    Are today’s new motorized electric scooters an epidemic terrorizing American cities? In the New York Times, Nashville writer Margaret Renkl argues that the shared vehicles known as e-scooters are often abandoned in inappropriate places—such as in front of doorways, in the middle of the sidewalk, and on street corners. Renkl presents this as an inconvenience that outweighs all

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  • Are Democrats Looking to the Lifeboats?

    Are Democrats Looking to the Lifeboats?0

    Not so long ago, President Joe Biden was being talked of as a transformative president, a second Franklin D. Roosevelt in terms of the domestic agenda he would enact. And there was substance to the claim. Early in his presidency, Biden had passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. While his majorities in both houses of

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  • Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future?

    Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future?0

    Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future. “Inevitable!” predicted some pundits, for demography is destiny. Moreover, in 2020, Democrats, who had won the popular vote six times in seven presidential elections, swept the popular vote again, by 6 million ballots. And they captured both houses of Congress. The future did seem

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  • Are Criminals Born Bad?

    Are Criminals Born Bad?0

    The father of modern criminology, the 19th century Italian sociologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), believed that criminality was genetically determined. “Born criminals” could be detected by the presence of a long list of “stigmata” such as an asymmetrical faces, sloping forehead, large ears or even left-handedness (very sinister!). Criminals were atavistic biological throwbacks, reversions to an

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  • Are COVID Hospital Protocols Killing People? Ralph Marxen’s Story

    Are COVID Hospital Protocols Killing People? Ralph Marxen’s Story8

    A hospital should be a hospital, not a prison. But Ralph Marxen’s experience was more like the latter than the former when he went in to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis on August 23, 2021, due to fatigue and dehydration after suffering an illness. Ralph had recently turned 70. He would never go home. After

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  • Are Conspiracy Theories Really on the Rise?

    Are Conspiracy Theories Really on the Rise?0

    Have the internet and social media created a climate where Americans believe anything is possible? With headlines citing now as the age of conspiracy, is it really true? In a word, no. While it may be true that the internet has allowed people who believe in conspiracies to communicate more, it has not increased the

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