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  • 9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy

    9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy12

    An often-overlooked Cold War journalist, political thinker, and ex-Soviet spy, Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in a poor and troubled home. Desperation and dissatisfaction with his upbringing and sympathy toward the plight of the poor and working class made Marxist ideology and its practical application—communism—especially appealing to Chambers. Like many young

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  • 9 Things We Fail to Admit about Transgender Kids (from an Endocrinologist)

    9 Things We Fail to Admit about Transgender Kids (from an Endocrinologist)0

    Five years ago, the idea that a healthy child might transition from one sex to another was still greeted with apprehension. Now, however, becoming “transgender” has turned into a bit of a fad, with even kindergarten classes aiding children with the transition process. Of course, the American public feels a necessity to go along with

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  • 9 Surprising Quotes on Welfare Reform

    9 Surprising Quotes on Welfare Reform0

    On August 22nd, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, better known as Welfare Reform. Shortly before signing the Act, President Clinton noted that the old welfare system: “[I]nstills the wrong values [and] sends the wrong signals, giving children who have children a check to set up house on their

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  • 9 Quotes that Might Make Trump and Sanders Reconsider Their Presidential Bids

    9 Quotes that Might Make Trump and Sanders Reconsider Their Presidential Bids0

    Given the fervency with which today’s Democrat and Republican presidential candidates are campaigning for the White House, one might reasonably believe that the highest office in the land is quite a prize. But before Trump, Sanders, Cruz, or Clinton take the oath of office, they might want to consider what some of their predecessors had

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  • 9 Literary Masterpieces the Catholic Church Banned

    9 Literary Masterpieces the Catholic Church Banned2

    The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (modern English translation: List of Prohibited Books) was the official list of banned books created by censors of the Roman Catholic Church. First published in 1559 during the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition, the Index was updated annually until 1966, when it was abolished by Pope Paul VI. The list

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  • 9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win

    9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win0

    We are still in the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential Elections, a surprise upset result that has resulted in millions of words being written and many surveys, postmortems, predictions and howls of anguish and triumph being unleashed. So here’s one more to that pile. As I mentioned in my last blogpost before the election,

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