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  • 3 Missteps of the Education System According to Mike Rowe

    3 Missteps of the Education System According to Mike Rowe1

    Everybody loves Mike Rowe. His matter-of-fact sense of humor, his humility, and his willingness to get involved in the many work sites featured on his “Dirty Jobs” show make him an endearing figure. But Rowe is also very intelligent. He has his finger on the pulse and problems of America in a way that many

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  • 3 Lessons Learned from Wisconsin’s War on Foreign Butter

    3 Lessons Learned from Wisconsin’s War on Foreign Butter0

    In February, a number of Irish citizens were surprised to find out that selling Kerrygold butter — a line of butter produced in Ireland — is a criminal offense in Wisconsin. Irish Central reports:  Under a 1970 law all butter sold in the state must be subjected to scrutiny by a panel, which recently ruled

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  • 3 in 4 Young Adults Think ‘Snowflakes’ Too Emotionally Fragile to Be Labeled as Such

    3 in 4 Young Adults Think ‘Snowflakes’ Too Emotionally Fragile to Be Labeled as Such0

    I was recently making a purchase at a small gift shop when I happened to hear the conversation of a couple of other customers. They appeared to be looking at one of those cutesy signs with catchy slogans that are the bread and butter of such shops. “You’re a snowflake,” the first woman read. “You’re

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  • 3 Excellent Children’s Authors You May Not Have Heard Of

    3 Excellent Children’s Authors You May Not Have Heard Of0

    If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for great literature for your children. Or, perhaps you’re looking to catch up on some novels that you may have missed out on when you were growing up. Either way, here are three authors I have come across who deserve a much wider readership than they

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  • 3 Economic Fallacies That Just Won’t Die

    3 Economic Fallacies That Just Won’t Die0

    In any academic discipline, one can find two types of experts: those who are incapable of explaining complex ideas in a simple manner; and those capable of making the difficult look easy. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death Henry Hazlitt, one of the few economists that belongs to the second group. Born

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  • 3 Common Words That Never Appear in the Bible (And What That Says About Us)

    3 Common Words That Never Appear in the Bible (And What That Says About Us)0

    In The Mind of the Maker, her brilliant book about theology and art, Dorothy L. Sayers discusses the differences between the biblical and modern attitudes toward life as revealed in the language we use.  Sayers provides an illuminating quote from a Unitarian minister named L. P. Jacks: “I am informed by philologists that the rise

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